[WikiEN-l] Deliberate vandalism of earlier versions of articles to stop reverting

Fri Jan 17 16:25:28 UTC 2003

james duffy wrote:
> I've a serious allegation to make about a fellow Wiki. I wrote a page on the 
> Irish Potato famine which became rather controversial with two people. One 
> of them threatened to revert any changes I made, and make sure I could not 
> revert his changes back.

James, if the history has been edited somehow, that's a serious bug in
the software.  The whole point of the history mechanism is that older
versions are available so that we can either revert, wholesale, or at
least copy and paste good stuff that somehow got lost.

I haven't yet reviewed the article to form an opinion about who is
right or wrong in the content battle, but really, all of us (even
sysops) are "equal" in the content wars.  So if you can explain
further just how you think the history was messed up, that would
be helpful.

--Jimbo