Help:Reverting
pl:Wikipedia:Historia strony zh:Wikipedia:如何把页面恢复到早期版本 Wikipedia:Editing FAQ>How to revert a page to an earlier version (short version: wikipedia:revert)
You may wish to revert an article to an earlier version, perhaps because it has been vandalised or material has been added or removed inappropriately.
To revert to an earlier version:
- Go to the page, click on "Page history" at the bottom, and click on the time and date of the earlier version you want to revert to.
- Then when that page comes up, you'll see something like "(Revision as of 23:19 Aug 15, 2002)" below the title, rather than "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia".
- Verify that you've selected the correct version, and click to edit the page, as you would normally.
- You'll get a warning, above the edit box, about editing an out-of-date revision.
- Ignore the warning and save the page. Be sure to add the word "revert" to the edit summary
The opposite of reverting is reinstating, restoring, or unreverting. But everyone knows it ought to be verting...
In general a revert is the advised action to deal with vandalism. Beware of getting into "revert wars", where two parties continually revert an article between two states. Have a look at our advice on staying cool when the editing gets hot.
Reverts and edit conflicts
Reverts never cause an edit conflict - if between you pressing edit, and then pressing post, someone else edits the page, their edits will be silently overwritten (though still in the page history). Beware of reverting high-traffic pages! Conversely, if it looks like someone has deleted your edits, consider if it's more likely that it's one of these unfortunate revertion conflicts.