* Assign rollback permission to ALL logged-in users by default. This seems to be...

* This change has been discussed with Brion Vibber and Tim Starling, and I have received no substantive objections from the users on the English Wikipedia.

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 3bb9cd7..14a66cb 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date. New configuration
   variable $wgCheckSerialized can be set to false to enable old behavior (i.e.
   to not check and assume they are always up to date)
+* The rollback permission is now assigned by default to all logged-in users. It
+  can also now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism.
 
 === New features in 1.12 ===
 * (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload

diff --git a/includes/DefaultSettings.php b/includes/DefaultSettings.php
index 4f64314..b4a7be8 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/DefaultSettings.php
+++ b/includes/DefaultSettings.php
@@ -1063,6 +1063,7 @@ $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['reupload']        = true;
 $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['reupload-shared'] = true;
 $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['minoredit']       = true;
 $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['purge']           = true; // can use ?action=purge without clicking "ok"
+$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['rollback']        = true;
 
 // Implicit group for accounts that pass $wgAutoConfirmAge
 $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['autoconfirmed'] = true;
@@ -1095,7 +1096,6 @@ $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['patrol']          = true;
 $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['autopatrol']      = true;
 $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['protect']         = true;
 $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['proxyunbannable'] = true;
-$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['rollback']        = true;
 $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['trackback']       = true;
 $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['upload']          = true;
 $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['reupload']        = true;