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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Mathglot (talk | contribs) at 05:16, 29 July 2023 (→‎Proposal: one-by-one version: Would like to see an enhanced version which could revert just one edit (or a couple of contiguous ones) and undo it, even with a few edits that came in behind it.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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Proposal: one-by-one version

Hi, Alexis. I noticed mention of this tool recently at ANI, and came here to have a look. It sounds really useful, but here's the thing: I would like to use it on a one-by-one basis, rather than for mass reverts, which I'd prefer an admin or someone experienced with it take care of. On the other hand, not at all infrequently, I come across individual edits which I need to revert, but by the time I get there, one or two or a few small edits have intervened, but just enough to make an undo not work, so I have to laboriously undo it manually; you know what I'm talking about: it's painful. An enhancement of your tool to address one edit might save me a lot of time with those, and I bet it would be welcomed by lots of users who run into this situation.

I haven't even seen the interface of the tool (could you maybe screenshot it, and upload an image to commons?) and I'm a bit shy to try it out, so I don't know if this proposal even makes sense, but what I'd like to see, is something that would let me identify an edit to be reverted by revision id, or to a small range (contiguous series) of edits using two revision ids, and it would undo just those. Does that sound feasible at all? I don't know how you have it designed/implemented, but if the implied UX sounds very different than what you have now, maybe it could be a new tool and 50% of the existing code could become a common library for both of them? Anyway, if this sounds like something that is possible and that you'd enjoy working on, I can add further thoughts about how it might look, and especially, a validation/verification check to make sure the user input is what they really want to do (i.e., and not do something wildly off because their copy/paste of the revision id dropped a digit). Thanks! (Adding Mako001 because your recent experience with the tool may put you in a good position to comment about whether this proposal makes any sense, or if I'm way off base.) Mathglot (talk) 05:16, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[]

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