On 10/9/05, Karl-Otto Kirst <post(a)karl-kirst.de> wrote: Not unless you have a bot. It's easier if you just load up the contributions, and open the revert links in a new tab. Unless he has hundreds of contribs it shouldn't be that bad. Dori

Thanks to you! We did it together with some admins. And we hope, that we restored all. But we had sometimes couldn't make a rollback to the latest good change; by that way we only came back to the damaged page. We only could restore the page before the last goog page. - Is there any explanation for it? May be someone may have an explanation, looking at the code, which was written into the damaged pages: <div id="wikitikitavi" style="overflow:auto; height: 1px; "> [[http ://WTHP1.coolhost.biz] [WTHPD1]] [http ://WTHP2.coolhost.biz WTHPD2] [[http ://WTHP3.coolhost.biz | WTHPD3]] [http ://WTHP4.coolhost.biz | WTHPD4] [WTHPD5 | http ://WTHP5.coolhost.biz] [[http ://WTHP6.coolhost.biz WTHPD6]] </div> (The space between "http" and ":" was made by me.) Regards Karl Kirst

Assuming you backup your database each night just run a restore procedure from the previous days database dump. Arthur Guy a star solutions arthur(a)astarsolutions.co.uk www.astarsolutions.co.uk audio / video leads adapters and accessories -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Karl-Otto Kirst Sent: 09 October 2005 20:06 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: AW: [Mediawiki-l] Attack of one user: Rollback of all changes? How would this be possible? I am asking because of similiar future problems. The actual problem we solved "by hand". Regards Karl Kirst _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l 'a star solutions' disclaimer The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. We believe that this communication is free from viruses and other potentially dangerous programmes, but the recipient opens this communication at their own risk. We assume no responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the receipt or use of this communication

Karl-Otto Kirst wrote: a dayly save (or save each time a great improvement is done). Of course this works only if the traffic on the wiki is not too strong. jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

Karl-Otto Kirst wrote: I have seen a similar attack involving that text. (I believe it is an attack.) This is on 2 wikis, both are running non-current versions of 1.4. On targeted pages, the primary damage is that the text of a large portion of the history is deleted. On certain diffs, you may see this text (oddly, usually just the new side, not the old side). The existance of the edits is still there, but the content has been lost. (I do not run the wikis, so I can not say what was still in the DB.) Keep eyes peeled for similar issues. -- Jamie ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/ Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail! Have lots of invites. Gmail now has 2GB.