[WikiEN-l] Trojan admins, is it a real problem?

[jayjg]

On 6/18/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/18/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > We've had hacked accounts deleting the main page for one.
>
> But those weren't necessarily "them". I assumed those were otherwise
> good faith admins who picked goober passwords.

That wasn't one of my points, someone else said that.

>
> > We also had an admin sockpuppet account un hard-blocking TOR proxies
> > and then soft blocking so his other sockpuppets could use them.
>
> You might have something there. Did you examine the approval process
> and previous editing patterns of these accounts?

I'm not sure what you mean.

>
> > And
> > somehow Wikitruth has access to every single deleted page on
> > Wikipedia.
>
> Those could have been grabbed before they were deleted. Just snarf up
> everything that has an AFD/prod/speedy tag on it and stick it on
> Wikitruth if it does get deleted.

That would be an extraordinarily large effort. It's possible, but I
think it again makes more sense to apply Occam's razor here.