AARoads:User rights requests
 User rights requests
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User rights requests is the venue where a user may request advanced permissions on the AARoads Wiki. Whether these rights are granted is subject to the community's determination that user requesting them is sufficiently trusted to wield them according to the policies and norms of the wiki.
Available user rights that may be requested here include:
- Patroller, who can mark changes patrolled and revert vandalism using the rollback tool (which automatically reverts a page to the last revision made by a different editor than the current one, and can thus easily lead to unintended behavior).
- Bot, a user right applied to accounts used only by automated editing tools, which allows users to exclude their edits from the recent changes and watchlist pages.
- Uploader, which grants the right to upload images locally to the wiki (which is only to be used to house images that cannot be displayed on Wikimedia Commons for whatever reason).
- Interface administrator, can edit pages in the MediaWiki: namespace, which controls the text and code used to generate the wiki interface.
- Administrator, which has the abilities included in the patroller and uploader rights, as well as the ability to block users, delete pages, hide revisions, and protect (lock) pages against editing plus granting patroller or uploader rights and AWB/JWB permission.
- Bureaucrat, which has the abilities included in the administrator right, as well as the ability to add and remove any of these user rights to any account.
Additionally, there is one user permission that is requestable:
- AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) or JavaScript Wiki Browser (JWB), a semi-automated editor designed to make tedious or repetitive editing tasks quicker and easier. Access to this permission is included with the administrator or bureaucrat rights.
User rights requests discussions will generally remain open for 14 days; however, bureaucrats can close a vote starting at 7 days if there is an obvious consensus. Both adminship and cratship require a two-thirds majority of Support votes in order to pass. Deadminship requires a two-thirds majority vote in order to demote.
To request one of these rights or permissions, create a new section on this page with a heading in the form YourUsername (rights/permissions you're requesting), as well as a short summary justifying the request.