WikiQueer:New admin school/Rollback




 * Additional relevant information can be found at Help:Reverting.

Much of your time as an admin may be spent reverting changes made to an article page. You may be used to the undo feature where you can undo the last edit to the article. As an admin, you additionally have a rollback feature to expedite the process. Where the undo feature lets you undo one edit, the rollback feature lets you undo all the consecutive edits made by an editor in a single article. This is handy, for example, if a user posts eight edits to an article and you want to revert all eight edits. Simply hit rollback and all eight edits will be undone.

Use of rollback by admins is subject to the rollback guideline which among other things, explains when rollback can be used and when it cannot. ''' Misuse of rollback may lead to the removal of administrator privileges. '''

Demonstration of reverting edits using rollback

 * 1) Go to the page you wish to use the rollback feature on (in this case, we will use WikiQueer:New admin school/Deleting/delete).
 * 2) Add two or more edits to the page by clicking [ here].
 * 3) Go to the [ history page.]
 * 4) Click on the blue-linked "rollback" ( rollback | undo ) at the right-hand side of the last edit string.
 * 5) This will rollback the page to the version prior to your edits.
 * 6) To see the difference between rollback and the undo tool, go back to the page history and click "undo" instead of rollback.
 * 7) A good discussion about the differences between rollback and undo is available at m:Help:Reverting.