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

[Casey Brown]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On  0, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at 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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