[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Tue Jun 19 00:57:49 UTC 2007


On 6/18/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > If that doesn't work, a more active technique of inserting fake
> > information as a watermark definitely would.
>
> Could we really have a different watermark for every account that
> viewed the page? If people knew this was being done, would they be
> able to remove the watermark (assuming they were technically
> competent)?

A different watermark for every admin account that views a deleted
page seems possible.  If Wikitruth knows it's being done, and they
have a lot of admin accounts, it'd be harder to make the watermark
difficult to remove.  Still possible, though.

You say Wikitruth always had the exact last version of the deleted
page.  As a really simple watermark, just add in some extra version
right at the end.  If you're dealing with multiple admin accounts,
though, you'd have to use more complicated techniques.

Is it worth the trouble?  I don't know.



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