On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:53 PM, svetlana svetlana@fastmail.com.au wrote:
An undo with appropriate edit summary would also avoid a need in escalating the issue - local sysops would consciously hold off their edit. If they went against an office action, introducing superprotect /then/ could make sense
Note that's exactly what was tried in the dewiki situation. The first WMF revert[1] refers to a warning on the talk page[2] that (according to Google Translate, and Erik's later statements) seems to basically say "Please don't do this again. Otherwise we might have to remove the editability of this page."
But the local sysop didn't hold off; according to Google Translate he replied "With threats you will achieve nothing."
[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&diff=1329... [2]: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_Diskussion:Common.js&am...