[Foundation-l] Policy proposal: Anti-vandal fighter role

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Wed Jun 11 20:22:14 UTC 2008


Milos Rancic wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Brian McNeil
> <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
>   
>> There is one issue from the GRU policy proposal I have ported from
>> Wikipedia. It specifies that those with the right to view deleted
>> contributions should not do so in order to disseminate the content of the
>> deleted contributions to third parties.
>>
>> How do we know? There is no log of who views deleted pages except for
>> whatever Brion and the other devs can access. Do we need such a log?
>>
>> This is an interesting issue for Wikinews as two controversial deleted
>> articles were passed to Wikileaks. I doubt knowing who accessed the deleted
>> content would get us any closer to knowing who was responsible for the leak,
>> but it would narrow the field.
>>     
>
> There are no logs (maybe in the future?). You should ask people from
> en.wp how do they deal with their own admins. It is about social
> engineering, not about a technical one.
>
>   
If the logs show that several people have accessed th page how can you 
know which one was responsible for the leak?

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