On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Gregory Maxwell<[email protected]> wrote: > (3) You could rapidly merge page histories for large numbers of > articles, converting their histories into jumbled messes. I don't > believe we yet have any automated solution to fix that beyond "restore > the site from backups". >
Quite possibly the only sysop activity (afaik?) that cannot be reversed yet. Merging the top-revisioned articles on enwiki in less than a minute before anyone catches on (certainly doable) would cause such a massive clusterfuck. Without relying on a backup to restore to, it would require inspection of almost every edit in that page's history to make sure they get restored properly. I've thought of this issue before, and it's probably the single most damaging thing that could be done with a sysop account (to the wiki itself, this isn't including JS subtleties and external resources). -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
