[Mediawiki-l] no rollback with only one author?!

[Rick DeNatale]

On 6/13/05, VampWillow <wiki at vampwillow.com> wrote:
> 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 ...

I've found that the rollback link is't all that useful in any case. 
It doesn't appear consistently in the various history views. I've
often wanted to roll back a vandalized article, and I couldn't seem to
find a history view with the roll back link, so I had to do the 'null
edit and save' trick on an old version.

It was also a problem a few weeks ago when there seemed to be a rash
of mediswiki attack robots loose on the world. As I recall I found
cases of vandalism 3 or 4 levels deep.

So it might be nice to just have a link in the history for each level
which reverted back to that edition.  On the other hand, it's not that
hard to bring up the previous edition you want and do the null edit
trick to bring it back.