[WikiEN-l] Oh shit, Slashdot is an attack site!

[David Gerard]

On 08/08/2007, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


The log ([[Special:Oversight]]) shows the oversighter, the oversighted
text and the reason for oversighting.

(This should be detailed on mediawiki.org somewhere ... I believe it's
available as an extension.)


- d.