Wiktionary:Votes/2010-05/Flood flag

Flood flag

 * Voting on: Enabling the flood flag on English Wiktionary. It is to be used only for temporarily making repetitive, non-controversial actions so as not to flood Recent Changes.


 * Vote starts: 00:00, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Vote ends: 24:00, 7 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Vote created: Bequw → τ 15:14, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Discussion:
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] WT:Grease pit archive/2008/August
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] WT:Beer parlour archive/2010/January
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] WT:Beer parlour
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] Wiktionary talk:Votes/2010-05/Flood flag

Support

 * 1) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support Yair rand 16:43, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support Conrad.Irwin 16:49, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support. —Ruakh TALK 18:35, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] The vote doesn't make clear (and I'm sorry I noticed this only now) who will have the power to set and unset the flood flag. Assuming that only admins (or only bureaucrats, or only admins and patrollers) will have those powers, I vote in support. &#x200b;—msh210℠ 19:11, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, I really wish this proposal were clearer. We're seeking a new user group with which rights precisely? bot? autopatrol? noratelimit? skipcaptcha? apihighlimits? And, then, who will have the right (technical power, not permission) to add and remove people from that group? admins? b'rats? admins and parollers? I don't mind any of the options I've listed (except the 'bot' right, as I have no idea what it does precisely, but I assume I don't mind it, either), which is why I'm voting in support, but. &#x200b;—msh210℠ 18:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * FWIW, Simetrical has informed me that the 'bot' right is the right to mark edits as bot edits, which can then be not seen in recentchanges, on watchlists, etc. &#x200b;—msh210℠ 20:05, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * My understanding is that should this vote pass, the usergroup "Flood" which has the right "Be treated as an automated process (bot)" will be added, and the "Administrator" user group will have Add group: Flood, and Remove group: Flood added. --Yair rand 20:12, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * So then, are user-groups "flood" and "bot" technically equivalent, differing only in their semantics? —Ruakh TALK 21:04, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * No, the bot group has more rights than just the bot right. See [[special:listgrouprights]]. &#x200b;—msh210℠ 16:14, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh! That makes perfect sense, but is also incredibly confusing. :-P  Thanks for clarifying. :-)   —Ruakh TALK 19:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support  -- Prince Kassad 20:39, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support Razorflam<b style="color:#000">e</b> 20:58, 10 May 2010 (UTC) Definitely.  As the one who introduced this idea to the community, I definitely stand by it.
 * 3) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support Bequw → τ 00:54, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support —Stephen 22:21, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support H. (talk) 15:23, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 6) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support   AugPi 17:48, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 7) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support Diego Grez 19:08, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support Diego Grez 19:08, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Abstain

 * 1) [[Image:Symbol abstain vote.svg|20px]] Abstain  Can't you just mark edits as minor, and then if someone doesn't want to see minor edits they can hide them? — <font face="Lucida console">[&#32;R·I·C&#32;] opiaterein — 12:49, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Decision

 * Passes. Bug filed at . --Yair rand (talk) 00:10, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * We now have a Flood flag user group. Looks like it's time to work out the policy aspect of this. --Yair rand (talk) 06:40, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I've started WT:Requests for flood flag. --Bequw → τ 07:53, 11 June 2010 (UTC)