Agreed. This is an absolute travesty. bibliomaniac15 --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Durova <nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Durova <nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 8:17 PM
If the username of this individual is discovered, I would gladly bring the individual to RFAR and request desysopping. This is the opposite of what we entrust administrators to do. -Durova On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Wilhelm Schnotz <wilh...@nixeagle.org>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 <gwe...@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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iEYEAREKAAYFAkllIJsACgkQvpDo5Pfl1oIQ9wCgkhjvk65QkqLHVfRlsNr6R9qE > > 3CIAnjNSNtb2bBBoEYMQMCCJtKHZor+S > > =hFKM > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
