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Find the first instance and reset to the backup before then. An hour, a day, a week? Doesn't matter that much in this case.
>Cleaning this up
Find the first instance and reset to the backup before then. An hour, a day, a week? Doesn't matter that much in this case.
It is true that they have a particularly robust, distributed backup system that can/has come in handy, but FWIW the timing matters to them. English Wikipedia receives ~2 edits per second, or 172,800 per day. Many of them are surely minor and/or automated, but still: 1,036,800 lost edits is a lot!