Wikiversity:Rollback

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Rollback is a vandalism reverting tool available to Wikiversity custodians.

Rollback button

[edit] Use of the rollback tool

Custodians, and certain editors^[1] have a rollback tool to revert the last change or group of changes made to a page by the same user. There is no option to provide an edit summary when using rollback. Instead, "Reverted edits by Foo (talk) to last version by Bar using rollback" is used automatically. This tool is used to respond to obvious vandalism.

[edit] Reverting edits that are not obvious vandalism

For other edit reversions a good edit summary should be provided. When a custodian reverts an edit that is not obvious vandalism the rollback button shouldn't be used.

[edit] Other rollback-like tools

Any other mechanism for reverting edits that does not involve providing an edit summary specific for each reversion should also only be used for obvious vandalism.

[edit] Obvious vandalism

In the context of reverting edits, always Assume Good Faith. "Obvious" does not mean "obvious to me". "Obvious" means that it is obvious to you and it will most likely be obvious to everyone else. New wiki participants may make edits that are useless, wrong, bad, silly, disruptive or misguided. It is the responsibility of more experienced editors to explain why such edits are reverted. If there is any possibility that an edit was not vandalism then do not use the rollback tool to revert it.

[edit] If your edits are rolled back

If your edit was rolled back and you don't think it should have been rolled back or if you would like feedback about how to improve your editing, discuss your edit with the Wikiversity editor who rolled back your edit. If your edit has been rolled back by a custodian, and they have not provided a satisfactory response, you can leave feedback at Wikiversity:Custodian feedback.

[edit] Revert wars

Never use the rollback tool during a dispute over page content. During content disputes good edit summaries are required. Before reverting a reversion during a content dispute, solve the dispute on the discussion (talk) page.

[edit] See also

• Custodianship tools discussion of the use of the rollback tool at the custodianship page.

[edit] References