https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69933
Bug ID: 69933
Summary: Allow nuke to revert a mass delete?
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Nuke
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: deanato...@yahoo.com
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What happens if an user account that has the admin privileges, or has the nuke
right set, had their account compromised? What if the hacker discovered this
Special:Nuke page and decided that "oh, I shall completely destroy Wikipedia
and all it's pages! MWAHAHAHHA!". It would be extremely hard to restore all
pages back again if the WMF servers do not backup. Maybe we should add a revert
option so other admins, with that sad look, still have a chance to get
Wikipedia back and running again by reverting a mass delete without having to
contact the MySQL server directly. If an admin account gets compromised now,
all pages are currently at risk of being mass deleted by a hacker who hacked
into a sysop's account, and right now, it is extremely hard to undo.
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