Thanks for fixing it Ben. The current admin interface only allows reverting one edit at a time. I'm planning to work on building some admin tool to revert multiple edits at once. Hope that'll help to revert the accidental edits quickly.
Anand On 01-Feb-2013, at 3:53 AM, Ben Companjen wrote: > Thanks Tom, I realised that, like one realises s/he should have backed up the > moment a hard disk breaks... I'm logging the records that I'm correcting now. > > To find these, I requested the 300 most recent edits by VacuumBot using the > Recent Changes API (I had not used VacuumBot in the meantime): > http://openlibrary.org/recentchanges.json?author=/people/vacuumbot&limit=300 > > With (Google) Refine, I filtered the 86 bulk updates made on that day, and > found the old value using the comments, updated the formats to the ones I had > wanted to use, created a script to do the updates (with logging of each > record ID and outcome) and tested it on the first of the bad edits. When that > went okay, I started it for the other records. > > Ben > > > On 31 January 2013 23:09, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Ben Companjen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't have exact > logs of what records were updated either... > > Perhaps that would be a good thing to add. It would be useful in other cases > besides this one. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected]
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