Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-961279-20160305153451

Over in the "Can I hide flood vandalism reverts from recent changes?" section of the Help:Reverting page, it talks about manually changing the URL of a person's contributions page to hide when you are fixing a problem. I didn't know admins could do that, and that will definitely help, especially when the reversion takes place over more than one day. The wiki groups edits together and collapses the edits into one summary line when you're looking at the Recent Changes list, so it's not immediately apparent what vandalism took place. But if the vandalism took place on Friday and you fix it on Sunday, both will be visible under normal circumstances. This way, they won't.

The three questions I have are:
 * 1) This will hide edits in the Recent Changes list. Is this also reflected in the Wiki Activity list?
 * 2) Does this apply to only admins or can users with Rollback rights also do this?
 * 3) Does this only work with the Rollback function, or is it possible to do this when looking at the history of a page?

That last one could be really useful if it works with the page history.

There have been a few times where other users have attempted to fix vandalism, but didn't catch all of it. For example, a vandal makes five edits and one or more other users click on Undo to try and fix it, but they might not catch all five. Or, you get two or more people teaming up to commmit vandalism to the same pages. And sometimes an edit war occurs as people try to quickly fix the ongoing vandalism and it keeps getting re-vandalized.

In all three cases, I have had to go into the history of the page and re-save an old version to ensure the vandalism is removed. So is it possible to use this temporary bot flag in conjunction with re-saving an old version of the page when you've got more than two people involved in vandalizing and fixing a page?

On some of the more disgusting types of vandalism, I have tried to remove it by deleting the page, then restoring just the valid edits. This doesn't work very well on a heavily-edited page, and is only useful the first time because after that you have to remember or recheck which edits not to restore to leave out the previous vandalism. 