Thread:Translating talk:MediaWiki/About MediaWiki:Rollbacklinkcount/en and MediaWiki:Rollbacklinkcount-morethan/en/reply (8)

Thank you for the screenshots. I have also read the message documentation. It seems that this is a link; if a user clicks on it, the computer undoes x edits. It needs a verb, not a noun, and the technical term for this action is "rollback".

I am not very technically minded myself, but I can work out that the verb "to rollback" is connected to the noun "rollback"; if I know the meaning of one, I can guess the meaning of the other. As it stands in the screenshot, I interpret "rollback" as a verb, but if the colon was added I would be confused. So I agree with Jan Luca that no colon should be added.

I agree that, both as a noun and as a verb, "rollback" sounds like jargon, but cannot find an everyday, short alternative which precisely conveys what will happen when the link is clicked.

Is there a problem that lots of users are clicking on the link, not realising that they are going to delete x edits, (irreversibly?)? If so, would any of the following carry the correct meaning, without being ambiguous:
 * revert $1 edits
 * undo the latest $1 edits
 * perform rollback action on $1 edits