1138585 - Improve page patrolling

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: wiki.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

Right now we're under utilizing mediawiki's page patrolling features, which is very useful for combating spam and which we'll need if we intend to open up registration.

I suggest we make the following changes:

1. make edits all users in confirm group group autopatrolled
2. make 'patrol' ability available to many more users

#2 can be accomplished either by recruiting and training for Anti-spam team or by adding 'patrol' ability to 'confirm' group. 

I think I'm in favor of adding 'patrol' to 'confirm' group rather than on-boarding a ton of folks to Anti-spam since that group can delete pages.

Comment 1

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

Another option is to add patrol ability to bureaucrat group and recruit for that.

Comment 2

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

I agree with the following things:

* Add 'autopatrol' permission to 'confirm' group.
* Add 'patrol' permission to 'bureaucrat' group.

If there's any other proposals on the table, let's defer them.

Comment 3

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

I also agree with the following:

* Add 'patrol' permission to 'confirm' group.

Comment 4

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

https://github.com/mozilla/wiki.mozilla.org/commit/52197ee0a50808452114f7417926da7bb1bbe31e

Comment 5

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

This has been pushed to dev, stage and prod.