On 6/18/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/18/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 6/18/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/18/07, Sheldon Rampton sheldon@prwatch.org wrote:
Jayjg ... added ominously that *someone* has been leaking information about deleted pages to Wikitruth.
There's no question that someone with at least one admin account posted deleted material to Wikitruth. How else do you imagine it got there?
There are many sources for deleted Wikipedia materials which do not at all require an admin account.
Well, you could suppose instead that, for every single deleted article reposted on Wiktruth, a non-admin just happened to have copied the version that was on the page prior to the deletion. As they didn't know when the deletion would happen, this involves believing that someone is copying every single version just in case, and furthermore that they're always able to predict which articles they ought to do that with, because sometimes the deletions have come without warning following a private complaint.
I guess I'll take your word for it, since I don't have admin access and therefore can't check for myself.
That does raise an interesting possibility though. A dev could presumably look at the logs and find out which admin(s) looked at these deleted pages between the time of deletion and posting on Wikitruth. If there are a significant number of such deleted pages they can probably narrow it down enough to figure it out.
If that doesn't work, a more active technique of inserting fake information as a watermark definitely would.
So: we have someone who is copying every single version of every single article just in case;
I actually tried this for a while, but it was years ago when the traffic was much much lower :).
or we have someone who is psychic and can intuit which articles are going to be deleted on which versions; or we have someone with an admin account who is copying deleted material.
Could it be someone who works at Answers Corporation or some other place with a live feed?