Requests for Comment/CVT reform

Things are constantly evolving at Miraheze, such as the fact that there are more and more wikis. While this is obviously a positive thing it also brings along some problems such as disputes on wikis and global policy violations. The Counter Vandalism Team (also known as CVT) was initially created three years ago in March 2017 in an effort to help Stewards combat clear vandalism such as spam or blatant vandalism (blanking, gibberish, etc.). The current scope of the CVT is very limiting and due to the fact that there is a shortage of Stewards (three active, one semi-active/inactive) and one of the Stewards (Southparkfan) having recently resigned in order to focus on SRE, there is a need to change the scope and expand a group that can assist Stewards. With this many wikis it is very difficult for the few Stewards Miraheze has to be able to investigate and deal with every issue. This group would not have all the tools that Stewards have (as that requires more experience) but it would be able to also deal with more complex issues and instead of being focused on exclusively combating vandalism they can also assist Stewards by supporting the community.

The following proposals are not all mutually exclusive and do not all agree with the initial premise of the RfC but are there multiple options so that the community can decide which options they prefer. Please note that to avoid confusion proposals are per section and any new proposals (which are welcome!) should be added under the appropriate section. Also, since one of the proposals includes deciding the name of the new group to replace CVT is referred to as [GROUP1] throughout the RfC. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 05:46, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Proposal 0 (Status Quo)

 * The Counter Vandalism Team will remain as it is and no changes will be made to the current policy and scope.

Proposal 1: Scope
The scope of the group ([GROUP1]) is changed to the following:
 * [GROUP1] are users who assist Stewards in supporting the community and working with communities to address issues facing them locally as well as cleaning up vandalism, preventing it when possible and enforcing Miraheze's global policies.

Proposal 2: Name
While the name is not the most important element, it does in short reflect the scope of a group so it is important to have an appropriate one. Each user may support 1 name and any user is invited to propose a new name if they wish.

Proposal 3: Opt-in/out

 * Wikis can choose to opt-out of [GROUP1] intervention as is currently possible with the Counter Vandalism Team

Proposal 4: Transition

 * Users that are currently part of the Counter Vandalism Team are automatically transferred to [GROUP1] without a new vote.

Proposal 1 (Status Quo)

 * Appointment, Revocation and Inactivity policies remain the same as for the current Counter Vandalism Team.

Proposal 2 (Appointment)

 * To be appointed [NAME] a request needs to be made at Requests for global rights. The community can discuss (support/oppose/abstain/comment) the request. The request will be considered successful if:


 * at least 15 users share their view
 * there is a support ratio of at least 70%
 * a period of one week has passed since it started

Proposal 2.1 (Revocation)

 * The global community can initiate a vote of no confidence or a request of removal at any time. In order for it to pass it needs to:


 * at least 15 users share their view
 * there is a support ratio of at least 50%
 * a period of one week has passed since it started

A vote of no confidence or request for removal must include a reason for why users are requesting the removal of a [GROUP1], and it is not determined solely by the number of votes.

Proposal 2.2 (Revocation)

 * In the case of a blatant misuse of rights or an abuse of power, a Steward may remove a user from [GROUP1] at their discretion without a community vote. If this happens, the user must undergo a no-confidence vote while their rights are temporarily removed, and their rights may only be added back if the no-confidence vote does not pass. This should only be used in extreme cases and should not substitute a no-confidence vote in non-urgent situations.

Proposal 1

 * The current scope and responsibilities of the CVT are transferred to a new group called "Global rollback". It is clarified that a Global rollback should only act where there is clear vandalism or spam and should leave any more complicated matters to Stewards and [GROUP1] as well as alert them of any offending users that need to be locally blocked or globally locked.

Proposal 1.1

 * If Proposal 1 is passed, the following rights are given to members of the Global rollback group:
 * Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
 * Edit pages (edit)
 * Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
 * Move pages (move)
 * Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
 * Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt (nominornewtalk)
 * Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
 * Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)

Proposal 1.2

 * If Proposal 1 is passed, the appointment criteria for the current Counter Vandalism Team is kept for the Global rollback group

Proposal 1.3
If Proposal 1 is passed, the appointment criteria for the Global rollback group is the following:


 * To be appointed Global rollback a request needs to be made at Requests for global rights. The community can discuss (support/oppose/abstain/comment) the request. The request will be considered successful if:


 * at least 5 users share their view
 * there is a support ratio of at least 80%
 * a period of one week has passed since it started

Proposal 1.4
If Proposal 1 is passed, the criteria for removing some from the Global rollback group is the following:


 * The global community can initiate a vote of no confidence or a request of removal at any time. In order for it to pass it needs to:


 * at least 5 users share their view
 * there is a support ratio of at least 50%
 * a period of one week has passed since it started

A vote of no confidence or request for removal must include a reason for why users are requesting the removal of a Global rollback, and it is not determined solely by the number of votes.

Proposal 1.5

 * In the case of a blatant misuse of rights or an abuse of power, a Steward may remove a user from [GROUP2] at their discretion without a community vote. If this happens, the user must undergo a no-confidence vote while their rights are temporarily removed, and their rights may only be added back if the no-confidence vote does not pass. This should only be used in extreme cases and should not substitute a no-confidence vote in non-urgent situations.

Proposal 1

 * In an effort to stop hat collecting (getting new rights just for show), candidates for stewardship must first serve as [GROUP 1] for a period of at least 1 month

Proposal 2

 * In an effort to stop hat collecting (getting new rights just for show), candidates for stewardship must first serve as [GROUP 1] for a period of at least 3 months