Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Admins and patrollers/Allow partial reverts for edits
Allow partial reverts for edits
- Problem: There are edits of which a part should be reverted but the rest should/can be kept. In such cases you don't always want to time-consumingly edit/improve the source of the page. Instead the changes are either completely kept or completely reverted.
- Deutsch: Es gibt Bearbeitunen, bei denen ein Teil rückgänig gemacht werden sollte, der Rest aber behalten werden kann. In solchen Fällen möchte man nicht immer den Quelltext der Seite aufwändig verbessern. Stattdessen werden dann die Bearbeitungen komplett behaltden oder komplett rückgängig gemacht.
- Who would benefit: Everybody who only wants to revert parts of an edit
- Deutsch: Jeder, der nur Teile einer Bearbeitung rückgänig machen will
- Proposed solution: Add a link "Partially revert" next to the normal "revert", which would open a page which looks like the "new" version of Two Column Edit Conflict View. It'll show a "conflict" between the version which will be partially reverted and the previous version. The conflict resolution can then be saved normally.
- Deutsch: Einen Link (Teilweise rückgängig machen) neben den normalen (Rückgängig) - Link setzen, mit dem eine Seite, die wie die "neue" Version des "Two Column Edit Conflict View" aussieht, aufgerufen wird. Es wird ein "Konflikt" zwichen der Version, die teilweise rückgängig wird und vorherigen Version angezeigt. Die Lösung des Konflikts kann dann normal gespeichert werden.
- Other comments:
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: FF-11 (talk) 17:24, 5 November 2018 (UTC) (Old username: Honischboy)
Discussion
- This would be cool, but I'm not sure how feasible it is. --Izno (talk) 19:01, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
- I love the idea too. Needs some brainstorming to come up with a good idea to make this work well. Thanks for submitting the proposal FF-11. I will rename the proposal to English and move it to the right category. -- NKohli (WMF) (talk) 21:19, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
- Related phabricator task at T108664. --Izno (talk) 20:54, 7 November 2018 (UTC)=
- I could use this. It would probably improved new editor retention, especially if you could use it through some of the editing tools. HLHJ (talk) 07:11, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- I don't get the point. Using "undo" already allows altering, and so does using "edit". So what exactly would the change be? --Vogone (talk) 00:58, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- When you click "Revert" you do get the chance to edit the page before saving, but if you'd like to reinsert some part of the undone edit, you'll need to go back and forth between the editor and the diff view. The idea I guess is to use the edit conflict view so that the changed text is available in the editor and it's marked up so that it's easily seen. Uanfala (talk) 20:07, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. With your explanation, it now makes much more sense to me. However, I would then think that all "undo"s should come with this feature, rather than adding an additional "partial undo" link as proposed. --Vogone (talk) 21:56, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- AutoWikiBrowser has a feature which is interesting for this: it allows one to click on part of a diff to discard those changes. I've attempted to create a similar feature using JavaScript: UndoFromDiff.js (it is not perfect, but works for most cases, even the diffs which appear when undoing edits). Helder 12:03, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. With your explanation, it now makes much more sense to me. However, I would then think that all "undo"s should come with this feature, rather than adding an additional "partial undo" link as proposed. --Vogone (talk) 21:56, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- When you click "Revert" you do get the chance to edit the page before saving, but if you'd like to reinsert some part of the undone edit, you'll need to go back and forth between the editor and the diff view. The idea I guess is to use the edit conflict view so that the changed text is available in the editor and it's marked up so that it's easily seen. Uanfala (talk) 20:07, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- I don't understand. Isn't rollback supposed to revert vandalism/spam? many wikis don't like their rollbackers to use this access to revert valid edits, which seems to be the case given in "problem". Matiia (talk) 00:59, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
Voting
- Support Szoltys (talk) 18:33, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support James Martindale (talk) 18:35, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Tom Ja (talk) 19:41, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Useful. Super Wang on zhwiki (Share your opinions) 23:42, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Gehenna1510 (talk) 00:16, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support That would be great ! Braveheidi (talk) 01:12, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support I agree, there are times that revert all the content that was posted by a user only for minor details that can even be pointed out or changed by the same who reversed them. Albert Cardozo (talk) 01:27, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:35, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Hiàn (talk) 04:47, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support --John Cline (talk) 04:48, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Mahir256 (talk) 06:12, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Xiplus (talk) 07:30, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Libcub (talk) 10:13, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Alaa :)..! 10:37, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Will be really helpful in removing old spam/vandalism. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 11:05, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 11:07, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support 94rain (talk) 13:57, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Sakretsu (talk) 14:19, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Townie (talk) 16:44, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Barcelona (talk) 18:54, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support PamD (talk) 18:57, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support —Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 19:54, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support JAn Dudík (talk) 19:56, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support JOAN ~ (Questions?) 21:00, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Vercelas (quæstiones?) 21:22, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support —AlvaroMolina (✉ - ✔) 00:36, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Tim Landscheidt (talk) 01:43, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Temp3600 (talk) 05:45, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose This is more or less an ordinary edit. — Jeblad 08:47, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Vriullop (talk) 09:35, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Sebastian Wallroth (talk) 10:35, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Seems dope, seems hard ~ Amory (u • t • c) 11:23, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support stwalkerster (talk) 17:07, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support — Draceane talkcontrib. 17:29, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Strong support Waddie96 (talk) 07:38, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Joalbertine (talk) 08:40, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support ~ Nahid Talk 09:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Courcelles 14:57, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Geraki TL 17:12, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support BugWarp (talk) 23:57, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Iridescent (talk) 10:21, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 22:23, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 23:04, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Rschen7754 01:55, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Muhammad Abul-Futooh (talk) 11:52, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Framawiki (talk) 19:37, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Skyman gozilla (talk) 20:07, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Nihlus 22:13, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Nandhinikandhasamy (talk) 02:44, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support ~Cybularny Speak? 15:48, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support James F. (talk) 22:43, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Pf1127 (talk) 06:22, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Adithyak1997 (talk) 10:16, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Uanfala (talk) 20:05, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Tgr (talk) 04:04, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Helder 12:03, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Quebec99 (talk) 19:03, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support There are always some copyedits, or attempts at copyediting, where there's one edit you really should keep amid a bunch you dumped Daniel Case (talk) 04:04, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Dreamy Jazz (talk) 08:44, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Ninja✮Strikers «☎» 11:35, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support - while normal editing can achieve this, it can be tedious. Kirbanzo (talk) 18:55, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Silvio Haehner (talk) 22:56, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Izno (talk) 00:58, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Kirk Discussion 17:28, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Iich1960 (talk) 10:54, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Denver20 (talk) 15:28, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Ldorfman (talk) 20:44, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Tarheel95 (talk) 03:24, 30 November 2018 (UTC)