On 12/5/06, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Should I have posted to mediawiki-l instead?
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.
Yes, this is clearly the weird sort of situation that arises when
politics meets technology.
Q1) What is "undo"?
A) Rollback for any revision.
Q2) Why doesn't it show up for the current revision?
A) Because "rollback" is more efficient for that case.
Q3) So I should use rollback instead?
A) No, because only admins are allowed to rollback stuff.
Q4) So I should use undo instead?
A) No, see Q2.
Steve