I think what would be the most intuitive way would be to have on the history list a revert link next to the diff link and clicking this link would restore the page to the state of that version.
This would behave as if the person clicking the link had edited the page, creating a new entry in the history - thus avoiding vandalism.
Graeme
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of VampWillow Sent: 14 June 2005 01:15 To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] no rollback with only one author?!
The issue you are having is that "rollback" presumes it is being used as a result of vandalism (usual experience on public wikis) so it rolls back all the edits of the latest editor. Where there was just the one editor therefore it would roll back all their edits.
I think what you are asking for is a configurable switch that makes "rollback" just reverse the single most recent edit rather than the edits of the last editor ...
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Thompson, Graeme (AELE) wrote:
I think what would be the most intuitive way would be to have on the history list a revert link next to the diff link and clicking this link would restore the page to the state of that version.
This would behave as if the person clicking the link had edited the page, creating a new entry in the history - thus avoiding vandalism.
The basic problem with that is that some fun web spider will come through and revert all your pages to each and every revision, in turn. :)
The rollback link is a special-case shortcut tool for sysops (so it doesn't appear to anyone else), and it's just a shortcut for regular old editing.
Really, it's just two additional clicks from history to saved reverted page. *Two*. Click, click, you're done. If this isn't for vandalism, I wouldn't expect anyone to be doing it often to begin with and I'm not sure there's a strong case for making it one-click (TM).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 6/14/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
The rollback link is a special-case shortcut tool for sysops (so it doesn't appear to anyone else), and it's just a shortcut for regular old editing.
Really, it's just two additional clicks from history to saved reverted page. *Two*. Click, click, you're done. If this isn't for vandalism, I wouldn't expect anyone to be doing it often to begin with and I'm not sure there's a strong case for making it one-click (TM).
Actually three I think. 1) click on the revision date to bring up the version, 2) click on the edit tab, 3) click on save.
In any case I agree that there probably isn't a strong case for making it one-click, I'm actually more perturbed when I run into a vandalism situation and for some reason the rollback link isn't there. In that case, so I have to do the edit save two-step anyway.
Rick DeNatale wrote:
On 6/14/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Really, it's just two additional clicks from history to saved reverted page. *Two*. Click, click, you're done. If this isn't for vandalism, I wouldn't expect anyone to be doing it often to begin with and I'm not sure there's a strong case for making it one-click (TM).
Actually three I think. 1) click on the revision date to bring up the version, 2) click on the edit tab, 3) click on save.
Right: three minus one is two. Two more than one makes three.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 6/14/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Rick DeNatale wrote:
On 6/14/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Really, it's just two additional clicks from history to saved reverted page. *Two*. Click, click, you're done. If this isn't for vandalism, I wouldn't expect anyone to be doing it often to begin with and I'm not sure there's a strong case for making it one-click (TM).
Actually three I think. 1) click on the revision date to bring up the version, 2) click on the edit tab, 3) click on save.
Right: three minus one is two. Two more than one makes three.
Oh additional, you said additional. I plead insanity because I have my 5-year old great niece visiting right now <G>
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