Allow despamming a wiki fast.

If invoked, show a list of all authors that edited pages the last 24 hours sorted by number of pages. After selecting one show a list of pages that are last edited by this author within the last 24 hours. Also offer a link to extend the time span.

After the user confirmed the revertion of these pages revert them to the last state before being edited by this author. For each page check again if it has not been edited by someone else since then.

Of course ACLs have to be honoured.

• How do we avoid misuse? Just revert again?
  • Yes, all the reverts are done by the user so it is easy to just revert them again with the same action

Future Ideas

Allow removing the changes completely.

• Dangerous!
• Require special permissions: admin?, delete?
• May be only mark the revisions as hidden and keep them interally.
  • "show hidden" button/param in RC?
    • Might disable soft security.
    • Who wants to see revisions that were marked as spam by the admin?
  • require server admin to restore?

Discussion

What happens if someone edited some page after the spammer? How do we cancel one edit but not the other?

• we need to check the history of all pages we wnat to revert and make shure that the spammer is the last editor and we take the last version not edited by him (to also revert several edits in a row)