2009/3/25 Brion Vibber <[email protected]>: > David Gerard wrote:
>> The "usermerge" procedure is presently irreversible. Are there plans >> for a way to make it reversible in case of error? I'm assuming error >> (and a great deal of tedious mucking about to go back) is inevitable, >> since the action is taken by humans. > I assume this is about the UserMerge extension? (Note we're not > currently using this at Wikimedia.) Oh, good! I say "oh, good!" because such a merge without unmerge has just too much potential for messes, and it was being discussed on functionaries-en-l (the latest incarnation of the Cabal), and I thought from the discussion it was switched on. > It would probably be tricky to implement, but not impossible. Basically > would need to record which revisions, log entries, etc got reassigned > (potentially many tens of thousands in a single merge event) and their > original assignment. Yeah. Before such a thing is switched on for WMF wikis, we'd need a way to avert the obvious hilarity ensuing from an error. Perhaps not keeping the records forever, but certainly enough for a week or a month's leeway to revert pressing the wrong button. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
