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)