Yes, administrators always have to remember that. We should treat deletion
as permanent, but you normally can access it for months afterwards. :)
On 8/9/07, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 0, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> scribbled:
There are three "levels" or types of
deletion:
1. Blanking --> simplest, anyone can do this and view the blanked
content in
the history
2. Deletion --> admins can do this easily, other admins can see this and
it
is shown in a public log
3. Oversight --> [[m:Hiding revisions]] revisions are *permanently*
removed
from the database by those with the
"oversight" permission, can only
be re-added by developers (I think root). However, there is a private
log
that shows a *little* information. Oversights
(people with the
oversight
permission) are assigned by ArbCom.
--
Casey Brown
Don't forget level 4: "Deleted off the hard disks completely." IIRC,
everything that was deleted (#2) before something like March 2004 was
accidentally completely deleted (#4) by the devs, and of course we only
comparatively recently got true #2 deletion for images (that is, allowing
for admins to undelete).
--
gwern
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