[Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

Mon Jan 18 02:23:35 UTC 2010

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:39 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> iirc, there is already a mediawiki capability for images to be
> completely removed from the servers.
>
> I can't see this capability in the sysop tools, so maybe I only imagined it.
>
> Is that capability still available?  Which users have access to it?
>
> If it is part of the software, I think oversighters should have access to it.
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
That was rewritten ages ago to allow the files to be kept and
undeleted and need be (so in theory they are now only removed from
accessible part of the software, not the file system), they would need
to be kept and not destroyed if they were brought you in
court/criminal proceedings because they would become evidence.

-Peachey