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
editThis 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
editReverts 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
editThese 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
Navigation popups
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