When viewing a user's edit history, a "rollback" link is offered to admins next
to each "(top)" edit. Accidentally clicking on such a link automatically undoes
not only the last edit by that user, but a series of them, if the user has made
many edits to a single page.
There is no confirmation or even verification that this has occurred; the admin
is simply taken to the (now rolled-back) page. So if you don't know what the
page looked like before, and you click "rollback" by accident, it looks as
though you clicked on the page title by accident (which is right next to it).
An extreme side-effect of this can occur on pages that are maintained by a
single person only, or that are private projects of a single person; for
instance, one's User Page, or a Wikinews article, or a WikiProject that one is
getting up to speed with little help from others.
Two suggested fixes:
- Add a red-text "this article has been rolled back to the revision on <date>
by [[User]]
- Add a confirmation page : "This page will be reverted to the revision on
<date> by [[User]]. Is this what you want to do?"
The confirmation page should *definitely* be in place on sites like Wikipedia
when reverting edits of another active user; perhaps it could be done when
reverting the work of any non-IP Or any non-newbie.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement