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Revert of wrongly performed transwiki import
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While performing this request I ended importing dozens of other unrelated templates which has broken some pages at Meta. I am so ashamed of this. Is there any way to fix this and revert those imports? Sorry.

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MarcoAurelio raised the priority of this task from High to Unbreak Now!.Apr 22 2015, 11:34 AM

I think you'd just need to selectively delete stuff to get rid of these revisions.

Yes, this needs to be undone per hand, either by history unmerging (delete all other revisions and move the "bad" revision away) or by just revision deleting all unwanted revisions. I don't think there's any other way to solve this (of course you can also just chose to ignore those revisions).

Aklapper lowered the priority of this task from Unbreak Now! to High.Apr 22 2015, 12:31 PM
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Yeah... Nothing for us to do on the server-side here...

Can at least the revisions imported be identified so we can perform such
deletions? It is impossible to distinguish them in the page history.

@MarcoAurelio You will see the newly imported ones have a higher revision ID. Hover over the timestamp link in the history page and look at the link URL in your browser status bar (or do an API query) to see that.

I think the easiest way to identify the revisions might be to look at the timestamps. Perhaps take the export file from commons and parse it to get the timestamps (you can then query the relevant revisions for these in metawiki_p).