Anonymous user
The Sims Wiki talk:Admin Portal: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
imported>C.Syde65 |
imported>K6ka No edit summary |
||
Line 580:
::I also logged into this account immediately after creating the alt account and [http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/User:LostInRiverview3?action=history edited the alt account userpage] to confirm that it was attached to me. I also blocked the alt account indefinitely as per the wiki's "one person, one active account" policy. But I think it hindsight it was a mistake to even create the alt in the first place. I wouldn't encourage others to take a similar approach to solving the problem. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LiR</span>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] · [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] · [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]</sup>''' 21:13, August 28, 2017 (UTC)
:::Yeah, neither would I to be honest. ― <span style="font-family:'Constantia'; font-weight:bold; font-size:108%;">[[User:C.Syde65|<font color="maroon">C.Syde</font>]]</span> <span style="font-family:'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size:108%;">([[User talk:C.Syde65|<font color="black">talk</font>]] | [[:Special:Contributions/C.Syde65|<font color="black">contribs</font>]])</span> 21:15, August 28, 2017 (UTC)
==Mass-rollbacking disruptive edits==
Recently we've had a rash of mass disruptive edits being made by a well known long term abuser (LTA). While the most we can do at the moment is to revert and block, the edits—both by the LTA and the reverter—flood recent changes dramatically, making it difficult to use.
To resolve this problem, I would like to introduce to administrators who may not be aware of this trick already a feature in MediaWiki that allows administrators to hide mass disruptive edits from recent changes.
To do this with any additional accounts created by the LTA (And with potential future ones):
# Open the contributions page for the user you wish to revert edits by.
# Add <code>?bot=1</code> to the end of the URL (e.g. http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Example?bot=1. If the URL already has a question mark in it, or if it has <code>index.php</code> in it, use <code>&bot=1</code>: http://sims.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Example&bot=1). Hit Enter.
Now all of the rollback links on the page should have <code>&bot=1</code> suffixed on them. When you click on them (If there are lots of edits, you can open them in a new tab), the edit you make will be marked as a bot edit on the recent changes table and will thus be hidden by default (Unless you click on the "Show bot edits" option in recent changes). Additionally, the software will give the edit of the user you reverted the bot edit flag as well, so both edits will be hidden from recent changes by default. This does not hide the edit from user contributions pages or from the page history (The bot edit flag property is only used by recent changes and watchlists), and the edit is not removed from the database.<br />
You'd want to use this trick when reverting a malicious user's clearly bad faith edits, especially if they had made a large quantity of such edits. Use this sparingly: don't use it for most cases of run-of-the-mill vandalism or for edits you merely disagree with. Subject to the standard [[The_Sims_Wiki:Rollback#When_can_rollback_be_used.3F|restrictions on rollback]].
Additionally, if you use a tool like [[w:c:dev:WHAM|WHAM]] to mass rollback edits, it is compatible with this trick; just add <code>?bot=1</code>/<code>&bot=1</code> to the URL before you click on the links in WHAM. By the way, this doesn't affect any edits you do not revert using rollback, and it won't affect log entries.
;Further reading
* [[Help:Reverting#Can_I_hide_flood_vandalism_reverts_from_recent_changes.3F|Help:Reverting § Can I hide flood vandalism reverts from recent changes?]]
* [[mw:Manual:Parameters_to_index.php#cite_note-rollback-4|Manual:Parameters to index.php § Cite Note Rollback 4]]
* [[m:Help:Reverting#Bot_rollback|Help:Reverting § Bot rollback]]
—[[User:K6ka|'''<span style="color:#0040FF">k6ka</span>''']] <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁</span> ([[User talk:K6ka|<span style="color:#0080FF">Talk</span>]] · [[Special:Contributions/K6ka|<span style="color:#0B4C5F">Contributions</span>]]) 00:12, August 29, 2017 (UTC)
| |||