Requests for Comment/User rights changes

Proposal 1: Stewards
The Steward group is almost fine but I'd like to create some process of confirmation like they do on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki to hold stewards more accountable and make a way for the community to !vote on a steward's over-all performance and activity. Presently there is no way to remove the steward other than starting a vote of no confidence, if the rights aren't misused.

The proposal is that every December, all stewards will be listed at Community noticeboard and the community will be given the opportunity to discuss about the Steward's activity and performance. If the consensus will be to remove, the steward will be removed otherwise the rights will be kept. To remove the rights from a steward there should be more than 50% removal support ratio. The structure of the CN thread will be simple:

Steward confirmations



 * Highly active. Keep. --User:Example


 * Inactive and behaviour is unacceptable. Remove. --User:Example

The process will start on first December every year and will be open for discussion for two weeks. Any user, preferably a steward, will start the CN thread and any user who holds either admin, bureaucrat, or global sysop on meta rights may close the confirmations.

Proposal 2: Administrators
Remove translation admin rights from the meta administrators but keep them the ability to grant the user group to others and one's own account. This is because every user is not aware of how the translate extension works. If admins want to help out, they may add the group to their account at their discretion. For clarity's sake, the rights to be removed are listed at Special:ListGroupRights.

Discussion

 * 1)  Overly bureaucratic in my opinion and since they can grant the right to themselves, it defeats the purpose of removing the rights from the account if they can just assign themselves translation administrator even if they don't possess the knowledge needed for the bit.  Agent Isai  Talk to me! 14:49, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Proposal 3: Autopatrolled users
Rename the group to 'autopatrollers' because:
 * There is no need from for the 'users' in the name of the group. It is clear that every user is a user.
 * Shortening the name to keep consistency with Patrollers as they are somewhat similar.

Discussion

 * 1) -er suggests one is doing an action while -ed suggests one has a certain quality. As autopatrolled users cannot patrol and there is no action called "autopatrolling", I think we should leave the name as it is or just removing the "users" suffix at most.  Agent Isai  Talk to me! 15:20, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Proposal 4: Patrollers and rollbackers
Include the  right in the patroller user group. Patrollers are the users who pretty much need this right. Rollbacker group will be kept there for the users who aren't necessarily active and interested in patrolling but anti-vandalism.

Discussion

 * 1)  While I trust all rollbackers with the ability to patrol, I do not trust all patrollers with the ability to rollback. Rollbacker is a right seldomly granted by administrators for a reason, it requires a higher level of competence and not all patrollers may want the ability to rollback. I've talked to a few people who all share the same sentiment. As such, I don't think the bit should be included in the patroller toolset.  Agent Isai  Talk to me! 15:04, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
 * To add to what Agent said, please see Requests for Comment/Autopatroller group split,--MrJaroslavik (talk) 15:19, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Proposal 5.1: Granting
Translation administrators group will only be granted after a request at AN and users will be given the adequate time to examine the standing candidate - their knowledge of the extension and community trust; not just admin discretion.

Proposal 5.2: Revocation
Any administrator may remove the rights from a user if they have been inactive for 6 months.

Discussion

 * 1)  - I support housekeeping for groups to prevent hats from collecting dust.  Agent Isai  Talk to me! 15:48, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Proposal 6: Bots
The Removal section is added to Bots as:

The bot flag of any bot may be removed by bureaucrats if:
 * the bot has made no edits or log actions for a year.
 * the operator requests that the flag from their bot be removed.