Help talk:Group rights

Autoconfirmed users

Two things:

1. We have two pages that contradict each other on the criteria for becoming autoconfirmed users. This page claims that the account needs to be 30 days old and have 100 edits, while this page claims that the account needs to be 25 days old and have 50 edits.
2. Regardless of which page is accurate, this is an obscenely excessive requirement for almost any wiki, let alone a wiki with a scope and active userbase as narrow as ours. For the sake of comparison, SmashWiki has a waiting period of 7 days and 10 edits, MarioWiki has a waiting period of 4 days and 5 edits, Inkipedia has no official waiting period, but requires only 5 edits, and Fire Emblem Wiki has a waiting period of 4 days and 10 edits. All of these Wikis are larger than F-Zero Wiki and have larger active userbases, and they have been able to make it by perfectly with these less stringent requirements in mind. Hell, Wikipedia itself only requires 4 days and 10 edits, and I'm sure we can all agree that's as large as a wiki gets.

With this, I would propose lowering our requirements for autoconfirmed to only 4 days and 5 edits; I feel this is generally fair given our smaller userbase and size.

--- Monsieur Crow, Author Extraordinaire, 05:40, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

I can't check the internal numbers, but it should be the latter. I agree that's a large amount of days and edits, though, so I'll bring it up.

Perhaps I should make a list of things to fix at some point ^^; Alex95 15:36, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

About 8 months and one server maintenance later, has any progress been made on this?

In semi-related news, I seem to have lost my ability to create pages. Was there an inadvertent shake-up of rights / roles in the maintenance, or did I accidentally miss something?

--- Monsieur Crow, Author Extraordinaire, 02:09, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

F-Zero Wiki is still on semi-lockdown, so I don't think page creation is up yet. I'm trying to work with Archaic to personally fix the site, which includes autoconfirmation limits and account creation, but he's incredibly busy and little progress has been made aside from the site update itself. Alex95 17:43, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

I see. On a semi-related note, given that we're apparently still on semi-lockdown, it might be worth updating the site header to let users know that we're in such a state, that there may still be some bugs to iron out, that they should try reporting bugs to admins, etc.

--- Monsieur Crow, Author Extraordinaire, 20:56, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Good idea, I changed that. Alex95 16:12, 31 August 2019 (UTC)