Xeno Series Wiki:Knights

Knights are users trusted with a few extra powers and responsibilities to keep the wiki running well. They are the most junior of the extra rights positions, and should be attainable by any good-faith user. Users can request to be granted knighthood at Xeno Series Wiki:Requests for knighthood.

Why is the short letter "N" rather than "K"? It's a chess reference. It also makes the staff positions spell out "BAN", which is haha lol. (We have some fun around here.)

Knight rights

Knights have two main powers: rollback and patrolling.

Rollback

Rollback is the ability to click a single link to automatically undo all consecutive edits made to a page by a single editor. Doing so leaves an automatic, non-customizable edit summary.

The purpose of rollback is to combat vandalism, as it allows a quick and easy way to restore a page to its last good version, no matter how many edits a vandal has piled on top of it. In literally any other situation, the normal undo tool should be used instead, as it allows for an edit summary and can handle reverting bunches of edits that are not all by the same person (if for example a well-meaning user clumsily tried to fix the vandalism first). Using rollback to wage an edit war is grounds for demotion.

Since rollback is instant upon clicking a "rollback" link, knights should be careful not to poke one by accident. Accidental rollbacks can be rollbacked themselves, or perhaps better done manually so an edit summary of "oops" or "accidental rollback" can be made instead. Alternatively, knights can find the checkbox in their preferences labelled "Show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link", and enable it. This will double the number of clicks necessary to do a rollback on purpose, but make accidental ones much harder.

Patrol

When users make edits, they are marked as "unpatrolled". Patrollers can view the diff of the edit and click the "Mark as patrolled" link to do just that. The purpose of the system is to have a view of which edits have been reviewed and which have not. It's not necessarily for marking edits as acceptable - even if you undo an edit, it'll still be unpatrolled, and so someone else may think it haven't been looked at.

Using rollback automatically marks all the reverted edits as patrolled, so the rollbacker doesn't have to manually mark each bad edit as having been looked at.

Knights also have the "autopatrol" right, so they do not have to walk in circles covering each others' tracks. If you are trusted to patrol others, you are trusted to not require patrolling yourself.