[WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

[Wilhelm Schnotz]

And I imagine no way to get it unless views of deleted revisions is
logged somewhere that I don't know of.... I suspect this is rather
unlikely unless wmf has them privately.

On 1/7/09, Soxred93 <soxred93 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, we don't have the name of that particular admin.
>
> X!
>
> On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:04 PM [Jan 7, 2009 ], Wilhelm Schnotz wrote:
>
>> Who ever the admin is violated our copyright policies at the very
>> least as I am sure he did not give the original contributor credit
>> (that is assuming that the original contributor even has the right to
>> post that).
>>
>> For an admin to do that is probably a good reason to lose the bit.
>>
>> On 1/7/09, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hash: SHA512
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>>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123129220146959621.html
>>>
>>> "John Soong, 18, says that after he had failed to get jobs at several
>>> chains that use the test, he began to poke around for an answer key,
>>> driven by "altruistic, and maybe vengeful," motives. In a discussion
>>> section of a Wikipedia entry, he saw a mention of a set of Unicru
>>> statements and answers that had been posted there but removed. Using
>>> privileges as a volunteer Wikipedia administrator, which gave him
>>> access to deleted page histories, Mr. Soong, a University of Virginia
>>> student, was able to recover the answer key and re-post it on
>>> Facebook."
>>>
>>> - --
>>> gwern
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>>> iEYEAREKAAYFAkllIJsACgkQvpDo5Pfl1oIQ9wCgkhjvk65QkqLHVfRlsNr6R9qE
>>> 3CIAnjNSNtb2bBBoEYMQMCCJtKHZor+S
>>> =hFKM
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>>>
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