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

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Ec
>
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Stuff that is worth leaking should probably be oversighted since that
is what the tool was made for.

Bryan