On 05/12/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
1) Is there any documentation on it, and if so, could
that be linked
to from the text that says "The edit was successfully undone. Please
click save to apply this change." (and also from the error message you
get when it can't undo due to intervening edits)
Ask the developer (Werdna) who implemented the feature. Like all good
developers, I am 100% confident he added a little documentation
somewhere on
MediaWiki.org. If not, then I'm sure some bright spark
would be able to work out how the thing works, and provide some.
2) What's the rationale behind not making it
available for the latest
edit? Presumably this is a political sensitivity about not giving
rollback to everyone, but it's a bit odd to effectively give rollback
for old edits, rather than for all edits, which would be much more
useful. Could we perhaps trial "rollback for everyone"?
If it's the latest edit, than a (more expensive) undo operation is not
needed; a manual revert would have the same effect, or a rollback
would undo the series of edits. So in short, the rollback feature is
more appropriate in those cases.
The moment people suggest trialling rollback for everyone (where
everyone, I usually hope, means all autoconfirmed users), a Holy War
starts.
Rob Church