Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-02-02/Announcements
Regarding the recent rollback
Greetings, Wikipedians. We're writing this article to address the recent rollback that took place on 1 February 2018. We never really expected this sort of outcome, and we're sorry for not having thought about this during development.
On that day, we rolled out a new feature called the "Sylladex", which was intended to allow users to "captchalogue" their drafts as a way of working on it on their own. Unfortunately, we forgot to restrict it to drafts and make it take the draft creator into account. As such, all pages were captchaloguable, meaning that over 100 thousand articles were affected, as well as countless other pages.
We apologise if anything you have written has also been deleted during this rollback, and we promise that anything like this will never happen again, especially without prior community feedback on the feature.
