Author: ayg

Description:
Quoting Tim Starling from wikitech-l:

I'm surprised it hasn't been said yet, but the classic wiki solution to page
move vandalism is not to put up barriers to making contributions, but rather
to make vandalism easier to revert. I made a "revert" link in the page move
log a while back, but a lot of people don't know about it, and it's far from
ideal. What we really need is a big list of checkboxes on the user
contribution page, with a "select all" box. Click select all, click revert,
job done. The function would be restricted in the same way as rollback. With
the 1.5 schema, moving pages is quite a fast operation, similar to editing.

Throttling is necessary to prevent extremely high request rate attacks, but
it should be set to a level that won't inconvenience regular users. The
UserThrottle extension can be adapted for this purpose.

If you can't revert page moves in a shorter time than it takes to perform
them in the first place, then there's a problem with our user interface.

The ideal should be that even *non*-admins should be able to revert any moves as
quickly and easily as they can revert edits; unfortunately, this is tricky due
to the possibility of making edits to the redirect page after the move. Tim's
idea about a "revert all contribs" button would work very nicely, given also bug
3185: a few clicks and no trace left of the vandalism. It would also not
restrict legitimate users, as bug 1454 would.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement