User:Ais523/revertsum
This is an attempt to index edit summaries used on reverts. These are all genuine edit summaries I noticed on Recent Changes; the user mentioned is pretty much a matter of chance and who was online at the time. I have not checked any of these reverts to see if they were genuine and/or useful, just looked for revert-like summaries on Recent Changes pages by eye. I'm collecting this information to try to improve my edit counter. Edits marked 'rm' aren't counted, as that's a common abbreviation for non-revert removal of information. I may have made mistakes on this list. The reverts are written in copy-and-paste plain text, not in wikimarkup, and diffs are provided (for verfication and to provide GFDL history; it would be a bit silly to cause a copyvio by illegally copying an edit summary!)
Random samples[edit]
This list consists of:
- all reverts on a 250-entry Recent Changes page with the last edit at 10:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
- all reverts on a 250-entry Recent Changes page with the last edit at 10:47, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
except for exact duplicate edit summaries or bot/script/rollback summaries from the same template as others I've recorded (for instance, there is only one sort of summary produced by admin rollback).
Reverts done by hand[edit]
- rv. incorrect edit
- By User:Tom Edwards, [1]
- rv link spam from 81.65.231.250
- By User:TAG.Odessa, [2]
- rv - When looking at casualties, every Finnish soldier would kill 5 soviets before dying. That's incredible amount. Also USSR lost hundreds of tanks, 1000 horses etc. other equipment . Very costy.
- By User:Pudeo, [3]
- rv
- By User:Anetode, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Stephencolbert&curid=6208176&diff=67217544&oldid=67217317
- rv censorious and hypocritical censorship.
- By User:Dtasripin, [4]
- →External links - rv link spam from 81.65.231.250
- By User:TAG.Odessa, [5]
- rev. The conlang theory was in fact very influential in an early period in the history of Sumerology.
- By User:194.145.161.227, [6]
- rv vanity (not famous yet)
- By User:65.25.93.126, [7]
Reverts done by rollback[edit]
- Reverted edits by 202.83.57.26 (talk) to last version by 203.81.161.153
- By User:FireFox, [8]
Reverts done by scripts/applications[edit]
Reverts done by bots[edit]
- BOT - rv 220.237.163.180 (talk) to last version by ZayZayEM
- By User:AntiVandalBot, [9]
False positives to watch for[edit]
- →rv back to jan 9?
- By User:Subhash bose, [10]
- (rv is the start of the name of the section, so presumably this is the addition of information in that section with no edit summary rather than a revert. I'm sticking to my policy of not reading any of the edits discovered in this sample, so I don't know for sure.)
Looking for reverts done by particular tools[edit]
These reverts were found by checking the contribs of the tool's creators, in most cases. (It's not entirely clear who came up with admin rollback!) For instance, User:AmiDaniel's contribs were checked to find a VandalProof revert. The tools are listed in alphabetical order. If you know of a vandal-fighting tool not listed here, feel free to add a sample revert-summary to the list. Most of these tools have a link in their edit summaries, and in these cases the link is added here to show which tool was used.
Godmode-light[edit]
(User:Olliminatore/godmode-light.js)
User:Sam Hocevar was the original author, but has not used this recently.
- Reverted edits by 200.244.30.130 to last version by Attilios
- By User:Olliminatore, [11]
Lupin's anti-vandal tool[edit]
- Reverted edits by 83.109.163.103 to last version by YurikBot
- By User:Lupin, [12]
- This edit summary is identical to the admin rollback in use at the time, except that the neither user was linked (the admin rollback linked the second user).
MWT[edit]
- Reverting edits by 80.193.154.68 to revision 70675247 using MWT 0.7.4 rc 1 (unstable))
- By User:MichaelBillington, [13]
- Link: MWT
[edit]
(Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups)
- Revert to revision 66594620 dated 2006-07-29 23
- 04:35 by Lupin using popups
- By User:Lupin, [14]
- Link: popups
- Revert to revision dated 20
- 46, 23 February 2006 by 66.32.186.149, oldid 40949544 using popups
- By User:Lupin, [15]
- Link: popups
- Revert to revision 55479706 using popups
- By User:Lupin, [16]
Revert tools[edit]
(Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts/Revert_tools)
- Reverted edits by Michaelb88 to version 67109068 by Godgoddingham333
- By User:Lorian, [17]
- Reverted vandalism by 64.237.182.253 to version 67171455 by 67.87.238.24
- By User:Lorian, [18]
- Reverted edits by 207.255.202.71 to version 66649266 by Lorian (Sports wasn't there at that point)
- By User:Lorian, [19]
VandalProof and VP2[edit]
(User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof, WP:VPRF, WP:VP2) Note that VandalProof is also capable of using admin-rollback, and many of its edits appear to be admin-rollback edits.
- Reverted 1 edits by Pce3@ij.net (talk) to last revision (65417061) by Polonium using VP2
- By User:AmiDaniel, [20]
- Link: VP2
- Reverted edits by Cpvalenzuela (talk) to last revision (63975280) by Avenueqpat using VP
- By User:AmiDaniel, [21]
- Link: VP
- moved Talk:Gwang-An Great Bridge on wheels! to Talk:Gwang-An Great Bridge: Reverted page-move vandalism by Mr. POV Pusher (talk) using VP
- By User:AmiDaniel, [22]
- Link: VP
- Reverted 1 edit by 12.32.91.81 (talk) to last revision (62252270) by Kylu using VP
- By User:AmiDaniel, [23]
- Link: VP
- Reverted edits by 69.157.26.64 (talk) to last version by DividedByNegativeZero using VandalProof
- By User:AmiDaniel, [24]
It seems that VandalProof edit summaries have changed a lot; the best way to detect them seems to be to look for the word 'Reverted' at the start of the edit summary (later for a page-move revert), and a link to WP:VPRF, WP:VP2, or User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof.
- Link: VandalProof