[WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

[Durova]

Lynching and drama don't interest me in the slightest; please don't suggest
those terms.  The integrity of the project is paramount.

-Durova

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Wilhelm Schnotz <wilhelm at nixeagle.org>wrote:

> If I were not on a cell phone and had time, I would join the angry mob
> and start an RFAR :) I don't think he has any excuse for his actions
> which knowingly violated our copyright rules.
>
> Feel free to start one or someone else is likely to do it. After all
> lynching gets good drama ;).
>
> On 1/7/09, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's come up on ANI.  I await his reply before concluding how to proceed.
> >
> > -Durova
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Wilhelm Schnotz <wilhelm at nixeagle.org
> >wrote:
> >
> >> And I imagine no way to get it unless views of deleted revisions is
> >> logged somewhere that I don't know of.... I suspect this is rather
> >> unlikely unless wmf has them privately.
> >>
> >> On 1/7/09, Soxred93 <soxred93 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Unfortunately, we don't have the name of that particular admin.
> >> >
> >> > X!
> >> >
> >> > On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:04 PM [Jan 7, 2009 ], Wilhelm Schnotz wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Who ever the admin is violated our copyright policies at the very
> >> >> least as I am sure he did not give the original contributor credit
> >> >> (that is assuming that the original contributor even has the right to
> >> >> post that).
> >> >>
> >> >> For an admin to do that is probably a good reason to lose the bit.
> >> >>
> >> >> On 1/7/09, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> >>> Hash: SHA512
> >> >>>
> >> >>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123129220146959621.html
> >> >>>
> >> >>> "John Soong, 18, says that after he had failed to get jobs at
> several
> >> >>> chains that use the test, he began to poke around for an answer key,
> >> >>> driven by "altruistic, and maybe vengeful," motives. In a discussion
> >> >>> section of a Wikipedia entry, he saw a mention of a set of Unicru
> >> >>> statements and answers that had been posted there but removed. Using
> >> >>> privileges as a volunteer Wikipedia administrator, which gave him
> >> >>> access to deleted page histories, Mr. Soong, a University of
> Virginia
> >> >>> student, was able to recover the answer key and re-post it on
> >> >>> Facebook."
> >> >>>
> >> >>> - --
> >> >>> gwern
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> >> >>> =hFKM
> >> >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >> >>>
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