Extension:UTurn

MediaWiki extensions manual

UTurn Release status: beta
Implementation	Special page
Description	Returns an entire wiki to its state at a previous point in time.
Author(s)	Tomas Reimers (tomasreimerstalk)
Latest version	1.2 (2013-07-12)
MediaWiki	1.18+
PHP	5.x
Database changes	No
License	MIT License
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help ] commit history Note: No localisation updates are provided by translatewiki.net . README
Example	http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ptc/
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The UTurn extension returns an entire wiki to its state at a previous point in time. Used for forgotten wikis that become overrun with spam (i.e. wikis used by a professor for a class).

About

There are a handful of situations when a MediaWiki install has to be locked for some period of time. Unfortunately, many times people forget to lock their wikis; they forget to close registration; they forget to keep moderating. An example might be a course website during the summer: once final exams come around, the professor forgets to close their wiki's registration, or moderate it. Then when they return to it at the start of a new semester, they realize that spam bots have infested it and filled the pages with links and spam.

Then, they realize that they should of blocked registration, or done something. But by then it is too late. By then the spam is there, and now they are trying to figure out what to do.

UTurn is a MediaWiki extension that allows sysops to return a wiki to how it was at a specified point in time.

UTurn is a standard MediaWiki extension written in PHP with a tiny bit of javascript for the front end.

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called UTurn in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  require_once "$IP/extensions/UTurn/UTurn.php";
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Usage

Once installed, simply visit `myWiki/Special:UTurn` while logged in as a sysop to UTurn the wiki.

Details

UTurn works by listing through all the pages in the wiki and creating a new revision that matches the text of the page at the time you are UTurning to.

For more details see: https://github.com/berkmancenter/wiki-uturn/blob/master/documentation.md