RollBack

Rollback all edits made after a certain point in time.

Assume your wiki has been hit by a spam-bot. There are over 1000 edits to revert. The rollback feature allows the administrator to revert the entire wiki to whatever state it had at some time X in the past.

This also comes in handy after a botched global search and replace operation.

Possibilities

RecentChanges Interface

Since every edit is listed on RecentChanges, administrators could find a rollback link on RecentChanges, it would rollback the wiki to the state it had before that edit was made.

Rollbacks are Ordinary Edits

If rollbacks are ordinary edits, they can in turn be rolled back. In that case, new spam pages have to be marked for deletion if PageDeletion is possible.

If there is vandalism involving page names, an out-of-the-ordinary approach might be better: Delete the new pages, new revisions, and the entries in the RecentChanges log immediately. A site using MeatBall:StableCopy version control could simply forget any pages that didn’t have a stable copy, for example.

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Contributors

AlexSchroeder

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