[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[Gurch]

Timwi wrote:
> Of course, when making this assessment you are assuming the current 
> MediaWiki software. Unfortunately, the current software is inefficient 
> at undoing large amounts of activity. For example, the User 
> Contributions page should have an "undo all of this user's 
> contributions" button, especially if it isn't many. At the same time, 
> this undoing of all contributions should also be undoable with a single 
> command. There should also be a selective feature, e.g. undo only all 
> image uploads or undo only the article edits that involve adding an 
> external link. All of these are non-trivial to code, which is why no-one 
> has done it yet, but it would make cleaning up after vandalism much more 
> efficient, even if the vandal is himself an admin.
> 
> Timwi

Oh god... imagine viewing AntiVandalBot's contributions and hitting the 
"Undo" button by mistake. If you're lucky, it only vandalizes half of 
Wikipedia; if you're unlucky, you kill the servers in the process.

For administrators at least, this is not an issue; going down a list of 
20 or 30 contributions clicking the "rollback" link next to each takes 
very little effort.

-Gurch