[WikiEN-l] More Seigenthaler fallout

Tue Dec 13 20:39:19 UTC 2005

On 12/13/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A bot with sysop rights could be able to detect admin reverts fairly easily and delete both the
> vandalized versions that were reverted along with the admin's revert version (which would be
> pointless clutter at that point). The bot would use the text 'Reverted to last version by..' along
> with checking the reverting person to make sure they are an admin. The bot would only delete
> versions that are older than a week and would need to. This would clean-up page histories a great
> deal and get rid of most of the libel and slander in them. Then, as needed, a human admin can
> delete more versions since a great many reverts are not done by admins. A more sophisticated admin
> bot could compare diffs to detect reverts (using the comments 'Reverted to last version by..' and
> 'rv' only to identify diffs to check).

An issue arises when admins use the rollback feature for reversions
that aren't vandalism.  I know they're not supposed to, and I make a
point never to, but it nonetheless does happen.  Any ideas how to
prevent this?

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Sam