This pattern — where someone vandalises a label of a given name item, thus making many entries for people with that name appear incorrect — is quite common. I frequently revert multiple such cases per day. My suspicion is that it's usually done by someone thinking that they're only changing a single entry, and not realising just how disruptive it's likely to be (in the case above,*everyone* called John!)
In some ways the extremely large scope is useful, in that it's more likely that someone will spot the problem quickly, but it's definitely not uncommon for such a change to remain live for 12 hours or more, and sometimes multiple days, before someone reverts it. Tony On 31 July 2017 at 18:01, Eric Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > My apologies. I was looking at the wrong Q-number for revision. The > pertinent Q-number to check here was > https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q4925477&action=history (The name > "John"). My mistake. > > > > On 07/31/2017 08:37 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: >> >> Am 31.07.2017 um 17:01 schrieb Eric Scott: >>> >>> * Is is indeed the case that rollbacks also roll back the revision >>> history? >> >> No. All edits are visible in the page history, including rollback, revert, >> restore, undo, etc. The only kind of edit that is not recorded is a "null >> edit" >> - an edit that changes nothing compared to the previous version (so it's >> not >> actually an edit). This is sometimes used to rebuild cached derived data. >> >>> * Is there some other place we could look that records such rollbacks? >> >> No. The page history is authoritative. It reflects all changes to the page >> content. If you could find a way to trigger this kind of behavior, that >> would be >> a HUGE bug. Let us know. >> >> Note that for wikitext content, this doesn't mean that it contains all >> changes >> to the visible rendering: when a transcluded template is changed, this >> changes >> the rendering, but is not visible in the page's history (but it is instead >> visible in the template's history). However, no transclusion mechanism >> exists >> for Wikidata entities. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech _______________________________________________ Wikidata-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
