On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Eric Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> We've noticed that periodically the contents of WD will change quite
> significantly from time to time, and then change back again, without it
> being reflected in the change history of the affected items. Here's an
> example from last weekend.
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q998698 (John Kerr - British composer and
> musician)
>
> At one point he seems to have had this assertion in our local stand-alone
> copy of WD:
>
>  GIVEN_NAME:Roberto está bien guapo
>
> This assertion is now gone, and there is no record of it in the revision
> history for this Q number.
>
> This would be explainable if this proved to be a case of vandalism or
> something and the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Rollback was invoked,
> PROVIDED the rollback operation also rolls back the revision history.
>
> Questions:
>
> * Is is indeed the case that rollbacks also roll back the revision history?
>
> * Is there some other place we could look that records such rollbacks?

Hi Erik,

Rollbacks and undos do get recorded in the revision history of an item
as a regular edit. Here is a rollback I just did on the sandbox item:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q4115189&diff=529556595&oldid=529556552
Not sure what is causing the issue you saw.


Cheers
Lydia

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