On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:21:33PM -0400, Simetrical wrote:
On 7/11/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
Snipping your rant for a moment, the reason that rollback is protected (more than other things) is that in the stream of wikidom, rollback is about the only thing which can't be... rolled back.
Er, rollback can be rolled back. Not only that, it can generally be rolled back by *anyone*, even an anonymous user. Therefore, privileges such as deletion (which can only be reverted by one of a few hundred admins) are significantly more sensitive.
Physically, perhaps.
Though, when examining the logical aspect, I suppose it's actually *lower* impact to roll-forward an unwanted rollback; either direction, of course, runs the risk of eating edits in the interim.
This is what I get for combining alcohol, karaoke, and mailing lists.
Sorry.
Cheers, -- jra