Brighter Shores:Requests for permissions: Difference between revisions

:''This page is for requesting permissions that do not require community discussion, including rollback and custodian tools. For sysop or bureaucrat tools, see [[Brighter Shores:Requests for adminship|requests for adminship]].

==Rollback==

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Rollback is a counter-vandalism tool that allows a user to revert all consecutive edits by the last editor of a page. This feature should only be used in reverting edits that are clearly vandalism, and any possibly good faith edits should be reverted with the undo button. This is done so that the user reverting can explain why they are reverting the edit, for the benefit of both the original editor and any other users looking through the article's history.

==Custodian==

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Custodians are maintenance users who are entrusted with extra tools to move files and suppress the creation of redirects when moving pages or files. Custodians are also able to view the edit summaries within deleted pages and are not affected by rate limits. Users who perform such maintenance work are expected to suppress redirects when moving any files, and clear any redlinks that their moves may have created.

==AutoWikiBrowser==

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AutoWikiBrowser (abbreviated to AWB) is a semi-automated [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] editor designed to make tedious or repetitive tasks quicker and easier. It is essentially a browser that automatically opens up a new page when the last is saved. When set to do so, it suggests some changes (typically formatting) that are generally meant to be incidental to the main change. The use of AWB at an edit rate fast enough to flood the [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] should be taken to a separate account designated for AWB and given the bot flag.