Random ideas for rollback to be shelved and forgotten about

Rollback is pretty damn contentious on certain wikis.

Assignments

Options:

• User group (given out by bureaucrats or admins)
• Automatic (via autoconfirmed or the newer AutoPromote)
• Given to everyone without a new user group

Limitations

Options:

• Rate limits
  • Possible settings (10 per minute for non-admins)
• No UI for non-admins (require JS implementation)

Actual implementation

Options:

• Remove undo and give everyone some type of rollback
• Use JS (with non-JS fall back) to provide some sort of place to input a custom edit summary or leave default
  • Have a user pref to force a rollback edit summary
  • Use a &bot=1-esque feature to allow a custom summary on mass rollbacks for admins
• If having a UI, where to put (or not put) links
  • History tab
  • Special:Contributions
  • Diff pages - essential
• Have checkboxes to do mass rollbacks (including the option to have a custom edit summary with them)

Splarka proposal

• On diff pages, two links:
  • Auto rollback – the same rollback has always been (no configurable edit summary, immediate results)
  • Manual rollback – manual interstitials for &Summary=
  • Possible JS enhancement:
    • Allow prompt() to essentially merge the two links into one
    • Dialog pops up with the default edit summary in an input box; user choose to fill in a customize summary or click OK
• On Special:Contributions:
  • Have a cascading edit summary similar to current &bot=1 option
  • Something like &rollbacksummary=Foo_bar_bazz that modifies all the rollback links on the page
  • Possible JS enhancement:
    • Allow live modification of &Summary without a reload
    • Slightly quicker and keeps behavior closer to older behavior
• On history tabs:
  • Have two links, similar to diff pages

Or...

• Use $wgLockDb until the users fall in line