Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-03-14/Page moves

Possible Solutions

As a tool to combat this, would it be possible for someone to code in a user-revert tool? Something the administrators could use to combat user accounts from doing things like this. As far as I can figure out, all it would need to do is

Iterate through every change a user has made (or within a certain time period)
If it was the last change on a page, revert to previous version

This would fail if the user used multiple accounts to change one page multiple times, but should be a fairly easy stopgap measure. Eric Burnett 05:34, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Administrators have access to a rollback tool they can use while viewing an editor's contribution history. However, when a page is moved to a new location (as opposed to just edited) the process of reverting the change is more complicated. That's the problem involved here. --Michael Snow 06:43, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ahh. I guess I misunderstood, but I see now. Although same principle applies...until there is an easy way to undo this, we will still be fighting to recover after moves take place, rather than have it as a minor nuisance. It shouldn't take much more than wiping the old (proper) location, then moving back, I guess. But I can see where that would have more problems. Oh well. I'll just have to think harder about this one. Eric Burnett 06:52, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yes, that's part of what the developers are working on - page move rollbacks, as it were. --Michael Snow 07:40, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This is a travesty

New users can't even move Kirche, Kuche, Kinder to Kinder, Kirche, Kuche. Can we please get this "feature" deactivated? Yubyub 22:54, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]