On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Eric Scott eric.d.scott@att.net wrote:
Hi all -
We've noticed that periodically the contents of WD will change quite significantly from time to time, and then change back again, without it being reflected in the change history of the affected items. Here's an example from last weekend.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q998698 (John Kerr - British composer and musician)
At one point he seems to have had this assertion in our local stand-alone copy of WD:
GIVEN_NAME:Roberto está bien guapo
This assertion is now gone, and there is no record of it in the revision history for this Q number.
This would be explainable if this proved to be a case of vandalism or something and the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Rollback was invoked, PROVIDED the rollback operation also rolls back the revision history.
Questions:
Is is indeed the case that rollbacks also roll back the revision history?
Is there some other place we could look that records such rollbacks?
Hi Erik,
Rollbacks and undos do get recorded in the revision history of an item as a regular edit. Here is a rollback I just did on the sandbox item: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q4115189&diff=529556595&o... Not sure what is causing the issue you saw.
Cheers Lydia