User talk:Alahmnat

'The Great Reset'

I noticed late on the 14^th of July that the Guild of Archivists was undergoing a great deal of changes, during which much of the recent bot activity was eradicated, and many things broke. Everything seems to be back to full working order now, including the image upload system that had originally been broken for some time.

However, now I find that my entire contribution history has been wiped, all of my contributions are now attributed to someone else, and a number of my most recent edits have been undone. (In particular, a few to my own userpage.)

Is there any hope of rectifying any of that at all?

Pharap (talk) 06:16, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Sorry for the slow reply. I've been quite swamped at my job this month (great timing!) and haven't had a lot of mental bandwidth left over for taking care of things here.

Unfortunately, my working theory is that my spam cleanup efforts unintentionally nuked a bunch of page revisions that were actually in use, but the maintenance task to prune unused revisions didn't realize that, resulting in a bunch of broken pages with no associated revisions. This necessitated a rollback to the last database backup we had, which was from April (this is something we've since mitigated with daily backups going forward). This has meant a lot of edits and contributions over the last couple of months have been lost, and I genuinely do apologize for that.

I'm not sure how your remaining contributions got reattributed, but it may have been a mistake on my part while trying to clean up the lingering user registration spam. Could you point me at an edit that should be yours? I can see what I can do to put things back where they belong, provided they haven't been attributed to a user with a number of their own contributions (in which case untangling them would be a right mess). As for your user page, I do have a backup of what remained of the database after the ill-fated spam purge, and I can try to track down the most recent version of your page for you. This probably won't happen until the weekend (again, work things), but I'll do what I can.

--Alahmnat, Grand Master (talk) 22:55, 22 July 2024 (UTC)