On 6/18/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On 6/18/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 6/18/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
On 6/18/07, Slim Virgin
<slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There are many sources for deleted Wikipedia materials which do not at
all require an admin account.
Well, you could suppose instead that, for every single deleted article
reposted on Wiktruth, a non-admin just happened to have copied the
version that was on the page prior to the deletion. As they didn't
know when the deletion would happen, this involves believing that
someone is copying every single version just in case, and furthermore
that they're always able to predict which articles they ought to do
that with, because sometimes the deletions have come without warning
following a private complaint.
I guess I'll take your word for it, since I don't have admin access
and therefore can't check for myself.
That does raise an interesting possibility though. A dev could
presumably look at the logs and find out which admin(s) looked at
these deleted pages between the time of deletion and posting on
Wikitruth. If there are a significant number of such deleted pages
they can probably narrow it down enough to figure it out.
I don't know why this wasn't done. Maybe the logs aren't kept for
long, or maybe it would be a huge job.
If that doesn't work, a more active technique of inserting fake
information as a watermark definitely would.
Could we really have a different watermark for every account that
viewed the page? If people knew this was being done, would they be
able to remove the watermark (assuming they were technically
competent)?
So: we have someone who is copying every single
version of every
single article just in case;
I actually tried this for a while, but it was years ago when the
traffic was much much lower :).
LOL!
or we have someone who is psychic and can
intuit which articles are going to be deleted on which versions; or we
have someone with an admin account who is copying deleted material.
Could it be someone who works at Answers Corporation or some other
place with a live feed?
The easiest way to do it would be to acquire an admin account based on
a few months of reverting vandalism. Occam's Razor applies.