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After taking the [[Wikipedia:Wikipediholic|Wikipediholic]] test for the fourth time, I suddenly, for an inexplicable reason, had a brain spark. Why not use a point system to determine who can do what? Perhaps this was related to my browsing of [[GameFAQs]], which also uses such a system for its permissions.

Each contributor is given a number of points, essentially an indicator of the privileges a certain user had. People aim to gain these points by making contributions that others deem useful, thereby increasing the chance that someone will vote in a positive manner for them.

==Point system 2.0==

This radically differs from the previous system of point awards in that the ability to give points is restricted to a [[bureaucrat]]-like group of users. In this vein, it holds more of a similarity to [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship]], and keeps normal users from being distracted by the task of rating others.

These bureaucrats still have their own points, which means that if other ones take issue with one, they can be voted down; and that ones with more points still give more to users.

===Version 2 privilege levels===

In this chart, 1 point is the amount the average bureaucrat can bestow on a user.

{|
|-
!Points
!Permissions given
|-
| -25
|Banned or blocked
|-
|''0''
|''Base level for anonymous users''<br />Editing with a required summary
|-
|''25''
|''Base level for registered users''<br />Everything a registered user can do now
|-
|50
|Availability of a rollback link for on-the-spot reversion
|-
|75
|Ability to delete images
|-
|100
|Ability to delete and undelete pages
|-
|150
|Ability to protect and unprotect pages, and edit protected pages
|-
|200
|Ability to run [[SQL]] queries
|}

Highly tentative. Changes should be discussed on the [[User talk:Alerante/Point system|talk page]].

===Objections===

Any new objections should go here.⏎
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==Giving points==

A user can grant a certain percentage (-100 to 100) of an allotted fraction of points to someone else. The donor does not lose points, but rather gives a "prop" to the other's rating.

Let's say [[User:ExampleUser|ExampleUser]] has 476 points. Assuming that he can give 5% of his points to, say [[User:JohnDoe|JohnDoe]], who has 99, ExampleUser can decide to increase or decrease JohnDoe's rating by 23.8 points. If he gives JohnDoe a '''rating''' of 50%, JohnDoe will now have 115.9 points, and ExampleUser retains his 476.

A user cannot give more than one rating at a time, but he or she can change it. If JohnDoe makes a major change to, say, [[Cheese]], that ExampleUser likes, the latter can change his rating of JohnDoe to 100%, pushing his point level up to 122.8 points.

In addition, these ratings are affected by the granting contributor's points. For example, if ExampleUser gains somebody's favor and now has 500 points, JohnDoe's 100% rating is not a 23.8 but a 25, so he has 124 points.

Anonymous users cannot have points, as [[IP address]]es are not guaranteed to only be one person. They will always edit at the base level of zero points.

==Additions (updated 23 September, 20:25 UTC)==

A bureaucrat-like level could be the only level allowed to give points, just as bureaucrats now are the only ones that can bestow administratorhood on a user.⏎
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==Privilege levels==

The number of points that a user has determines how many privileges he or she has. A sample table follows, which is by no means final, rather just a couple of numbers I threw together before Civics and Economics the other day:

{|
|-
!Points
!Permissions given
(contracted; show full)

*Doesn't this turn Wikipedia into a giant flamewar where people will fight over points and punish people with different opinions by penalising them?

==Miscellanea==

I've held off on allowing [[Wikipedia:Developer|Developer]] privileges to be granted by this. The people who run the server should be able to protect its integrity.

<small>[ [[User:Alerante|alerante]] | [[User_talk:Alerante|&#x201c;&#x201d;]] 23:11, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC) ]</small>