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

[Skander -]

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2007/6/20, William Pietri <william at scissor.com>:
>
> Slim Virgin wrote:
> > On 6/18/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >
> > They're not being grabbed before deleted. Wikitruth is run by people
> > with admin accounts on Wikipedia.
> >
>
> Could you say more about the evidence for that?
>
> With 1200 admins, it seems equally plausible to me that there are ones
> that are willing to give copies of deleted revisions to anybody who has
> a reasonable reason for wanting to know.
>
> William
>
>
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