I checked the IP of the person who made the change. ;o)
That's kinda scary, in a way. Though it does answer one of the things that always occured to me about wiki: what happens when some asshat keeps deleting/changing articles to deliberately wrong info? I'm assuming they can just ban people by IP, then?
As well as that, changes can be trivially rolled back, and if an article is being repeatedly attacked they can lock it (or freeze it - I can't remember the terminology offhand) so that only admin/editors can make changes.
With a couple of clicks, I could roll that article back to the very first version - although my change wouldn't last long. Someone would notice it and fix it.
And, well, everywhere you go you leave traces like that. If someone could access all the web server logs in the world, they could trace every click you've made, from site to site.
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That's kinda scary, in a way. Though it does answer one of the things that always occured to me about wiki: what happens when some asshat keeps deleting/changing articles to deliberately wrong info? I'm assuming they can just ban people by IP, then?
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With a couple of clicks, I could roll that article back to the very first version - although my change wouldn't last long. Someone would notice it and fix it.
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