rollback/undo link for a page move should revert the move
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	Thryduulf
	Dec 30 2005, 11:01 PM

Description

The rollback link next to an entry in your watchlist and in a contributions list
for a page move should rollback the page move. Currently the rollback link has
no effect as it just attempts to rollback the null edit. To rollback the page
move you have to use the link from the page move log.

This will make the behaviour inline with what you expect a rollback button to do

rollback the change.

(see also bug T5185 that I guess may be easy to fix at the same time as this one)

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Reference: bz4433

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open	Feature	None	T30476 FlaggedRevs: Rejecting a null edit that renames a page should also undo the actual rename
		Open		None	T6433 rollback/undo link for a page move should revert the move

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:01 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-diffs.

• bzimport set Reference to bz4433.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Thryduulf created this task.Dec 30 2005, 11:01 PM

Those move entries are actually just dummy edits, so (revert) links could not be
made for them.

ayg wrote:

Of course they can. They'd just have to be implemented differently, which may
or may not be tricky.

(In reply to comment #2)

Of course they can. They'd just have to be implemented differently, which may
or may not be tricky.

Well yeah, you can always do schema changes. But that goes without saying :)

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

hopefully a better summary

We seriously need a true rollback function for page moves. We have vandals who do nothing but move pages because they know it's such a pain in the ass for admins to undo that (and because ONLY admins can, if undoing the move requires deletion of a redirect). Ideally, some rollback function for pagemoves should exist that simply puts things back the way they were before the vandal made his move.

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

Those move entries are actually just dummy edits, so (revert) links could not be
made for them.

Well, we have revert links on the page move log, so I'm not clear how it is significantly different to have the rollback link do the same thing in the various locations is appears.

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

*** Bug 6984 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Bug 21359 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Fix it or remove the link. It's confusing :/

Bug 21359 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Martijn_Hoekstra mentioned this in T88680: page moves leave an un-undoable revision.Feb 5 2015, 12:47 PM

PleaseStand merged a task: T88680: page moves leave an un-undoable revision.Feb 5 2015, 12:49 PM

PleaseStand added subscribers: Martijn_Hoekstra, Aklapper.

Beta16 updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 12 2015, 4:17 PM

Beta16 set Security to None.

Cenarium mentioned this in T70936: rc_this_oldid should contain the revision IDs of null revisions created by log events.Jan 13 2016, 5:11 PM

Maybe we should just remove the undo/rollback links for null edits.

Can we not detect null edits by comparing the Sha1 of the revisions ?
Would this have a performance impact ?

Meno25 unsubscribed.Feb 22 2016, 7:12 PM

It is very strange, the bug report exists already since 2005 (also on T5909). It should be simple to fix.
I am in favor of keeping the link and converting him to what it is intended (like on Special:Log/move). (At the moment this problem got attention again on the DeWP Forum from experienced users: @NordNordWest, @Tsungam)

Perhelion merged a task: T5909: Page move rollback doesn't work.Dec 5 2017, 1:33 PM

Perhelion added a subscriber: • bzimport.

From a countervandalism point of view, using rollback to revert malicious page moves would be great. Abuse of the feature for page-move wars is a possibility that, well, already exists with the current not-so-automatic system we've got.

MarcoAurelio added a project: Stewards-and-global-tools.Dec 5 2017, 2:07 PM

matej_suchanek updated the task description. (Show Details)Dec 5 2017, 4:10 PM

matej_suchanek removed a subscriber: • wikibugs-l-list.

@MarcoAurelio: Indeed, this should include an higher attention for the user. Special user right check and prompt (not as the common single one click).

Matanya moved this task from Untriaged to Low priority on the Stewards-and-global-tools board.Jan 18 2018, 11:35 PM

See user script implementation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3ADanski454%2Fundo-move.js

Aklapper mentioned this in T5185: Page move rollback should not leave a redirect.Aug 9 2019, 8:49 PM

Aklapper added a project: MediaWiki-Page-history.Sep 20 2019, 7:44 PM

Umherirrender mentioned this in T307278: CVE-2022-41766: On action=rollback the message "alreadyrolled" can leak revision deleted user name.Apr 30 2022, 7:28 PM

Pppery edited projects, added MediaWiki-Patrolling, MediaWiki-Page-rename; removed MediaWiki-Page-history, MediaWiki-Page-diffs.Oct 21 2023, 7:14 PM