2009/7/16 Joseph Reagle reagle@mit.edu:
Does anyone know if during the NYT/Rohde case the Oversight function was used to hide edits? When the story broke, I could see all the edit history, but I presume the function can be deployed against select revisions and then removed? Or maybe it was the new RevisionDelete?
I believe neither had been used; it was plain and simple reverting with the material left in the edit history.
(For once, we managed to have one of these Wikipedia-removes-stuff debates without someone helpfully deleting edits here and there to confuse matters)
The NYT article did use the word "deleted", but this appears to have been in a more general sense ("removed from the article") rather than our internal specific sense ("revision was removed from view").