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
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