Forum:Favicon & Rollback

Could you please tell me how to make a custom favicon? my friend and I were making a wikia and we wanted a personal one.

Also, if you can, can you explain the difference between Rollback and the Undo? they are almost the same as they undo edits.

thanks.


 * My Page| STOP PUSHING THIS BUTTON 00:18, April 19, 2012 (UTC)

Hi Pea.

To make a custom favicon, you can use sites such as this to generate the file from an image of your choice. To upload it to your wiki, use Special:ThemeDesigner, and look under the "wordmark" section. It should be on the far right. Note that it may take anywhere between a few hours and a few days for the icon to update on the wiki, and clearing the cache sometimes helps (unconfirmed).

In regards to your other question, a rollback is an undo that is executed in one click. To Undo, you need to go through a confirmation screen. Second, the Rollback undoes the revisions that a user has made to the page until it reaches another user's revision. For example, if I made an edit to a page, and you made 10 edits, a rollback would undo all of your edits until it reached mine. Rollbacking should only be used in certain circumstances, such as after vandalism. Finally, Rollbacking does not allow you to add an edit summary to the edit, and erases the edit from WikiActivity. Hope this helps,
 * Just to throw in my two cents' worth on rollback: it's a powerful tool which, frankly, should be avoided like the plague. Basically, rollback is extremely likely to hurt someone's feelings.  As Demise101 pointed out, it doesn't allow for the addition of an edit summary.  To the user whose work is being reverted, it looks really heavy-handed, especially because it undoes mutliple revisions at once.  It should only be used in cases of very obvious vandalism, or maybe in cases where you've written a longer explanation on the user's talk page.  Using it as a shortcut for "undo" is strongly discouraged.


 * Indeed, there's no real advantage to the tool over a simple "undo". If you want to undo a whole stack of revisions by the same user, simply edit the revision before they started messin' around.  That'll get rid of the problem revisions just as easily and allow you to leave an edit summary.  At w:c:tardis we've taken a decision to stop giving "rollback" user rights to people.  Obviously, admin have rollback by default, but we're no longer promoting people to have just rollback rights.   02:25: Thu 19 Apr 2012