Changes: GuildWiki:Rollback

Revision as of 08:59, 1 October 2008

This is a currently proposed policy, per the guidelines set out in GuildWiki:Policy. If consensus is reached in the talk page, this notice can be removed and the policy category can be added. If it is decided as un-needed, this notice can be removed and replaced with the failed policy category.

Bureaucrats can grant rollback powers to users that they find responsibly fighting wiki vandalism, without application on their part. These users are listed at Special:ListUsers/rollback.
If a user wants rollback rights, he or she can ask an active bureaucrat. Administrator information may indicate which bureaucrat best to approach for this.
Rollback is intended to revert vandalism. Abuse of this right is discussed on the Admin noticeboard.

What is rollback?

Rollback is a one click revert, when you rollback, you revert all of the last contributor's edits. You do not need to confirm this action, so it is good for reverting mass vandalism, e.g. page blankings.

Bureaucrats would probably give rollback to users they've seen reverting a lot; after every major vandalism spree, you almost always see two or three users in RC doing all the work — giving them a bit of extra tools for that seems like a good plan.

How it works

Rollback isn't a completely new power, it just saves time. How reverting a vandal works:

Without rollback rights:

Open the history of a vandalized page and wait for history to load
find the most recent version before the vandal's edit and go to that version and wait for page to load
hit edit at that version and wait for page to load
hit save, then move on to do something else in a different window/tab

Rollback method

Go to the vandal's Contributions page and wait for it to load
Ctrl+Click on all the Rollback links on that page, and move on to do something else in a different window/tab.

They do the same thing, but Rollback is significantly easier and faster.

SCREENSHOT here of contribs page and possibly history page with rollback

Comparison to Undo

Every user has access to (undo) on the revision difference and revision history screens.

Differences:

Undo can be attempted on all diffs. Rollback can only be performed against the most recent revision of a page.
Undo requires choosing a particular range of revisions to undo. Rollback automatically targets all consecutive revisions performed by the most recent contributor.
Undo can undo a range of edits by different users. Rollback only affects an unbroken sequence of edits by the most recent contributor.
When performing an undo, additional edits may be performed in the wiki text, and edit summary may be edited. Rollback automatically revert to the version before the current contributor, and the edit summary cannot be altered.
Undo requires an additional "Save" click. Rollback is performed as soon as as the "Rollback" link is clicked.

Similarities:

All the revisions that are reverted stay in the page history. The Undo/Rollback action effectively act as a new edit on top of the previous edits that brings the article to the state of a prior version.

When to use it:

Undo can be used for anything, including content dispute, as long as it doesn't break 1RV. It is expected that the edit summary is manually modified to explain content edits.
Rollback should only be used against obvious vandalism. Whenever good-faith can be assumed, rollback should not be used, and instead a manual reversion/undo should be performed.

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 {{proposed policy}}
+# [[GuildWiki:Administrator_information#The_Bureaucrats|Bureaucrats]] can grant rollback powers to users that they find responsibly fighting wiki vandalism, without application on their part. These users are listed at [[Special:ListUsers/rollback]].
+# If a user wants rollback rights, he or she can ask an active bureaucrat. [[GuildWiki:Administrator information|Administrator information]] may indicate which bureaucrat best to approach for this.
+# Rollback is intended to revert vandalism. Abuse of this right is discussed on the [[GuildWiki:Admin noticeboard|Admin noticeboard]].
+<div style="border:thin solid silver; margin:1em; padding:1em;">
-==Candidates==
+===What is rollback? ===
-Rollback is a tool that allows non sysops to quickly revert vandalism without needing an edit summary.
+'''Rollback''' is a one click revert, when you rollback, you revert all of the last contributor's edits. You do not need to confirm this action, so it is good for reverting mass vandalism, e.g. page blankings.
-==Usage==
-#Enter <nowiki>{{GuildWiki:Request for rollback/Username}}</nowiki> into the above section
+Bureaucrats would probably give rollback to users they've seen reverting a lot; after every major vandalism spree, you almost always see two or three users in RC doing all the work &mdash; giving them a bit of extra tools for that seems like a good plan.
-#Enter <nowiki>{{SUBST:rfa1|username|reason ~~~~}}</nowiki> into the created red link
-#Notify the user on their talk page
+====How it works====
+Rollback isn't a completely new power, it just saves time.  How reverting a vandal works:
+* Without rollback rights:
+# Open the history of a vandalized page ''and wait for history to load''
+# find the most recent version before the vandal's edit and go to that version ''and wait for page to load''
+# hit edit at that version ''and wait for page to load''
+# hit save, then move on to do something else in a different window/tab
+*Rollback method
+# Go to the vandal's Contributions page ''and wait for it to load''
+# Ctrl+Click on all the Rollback links on that page, and move on to do something else in a different window/tab.
+They do the same thing, but Rollback is significantly easier and faster.
+''SCREENSHOT here of contribs page and possibly history page with rollback''
+====Comparison to Undo ====
+Every user has access to '''(undo)''' on the revision difference and revision history screens.
+Differences:
+* Undo can be attempted on all diffs. Rollback can only be performed against the most recent revision of a page.
+* Undo requires choosing a particular range of revisions to undo.  Rollback automatically targets all consecutive revisions performed by the most recent contributor.
+* Undo can undo a range of edits by different users. Rollback only affects an unbroken sequence of edits by the most recent contributor.
+* When performing an undo, additional edits may be performed in the wiki text, and edit summary may be edited.  Rollback automatically revert to the version before the current contributor, and the edit summary cannot be altered.
+* Undo requires an additional "Save" click.  Rollback is performed as soon as as the "Rollback" link is clicked.
+Similarities:
+* All the revisions that are reverted stay in the page history.  The Undo/Rollback action effectively act as a new edit on top of the previous edits that brings the article to the state of a prior version.
+When to use it:
+* Undo can be used for anything, including content dispute, as long as it doesn't break 1RV.  It is expected that the edit summary is manually modified to explain content edits.
+* Rollback should only be used against obvious vandalism.  Whenever good-faith can be assumed, rollback should '''not''' be used, and instead a manual reversion/undo should be performed.
+</div>