[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee members granted checkuser tool

[steve v]

I think its the question of 'who's definition' of
"trusted members" that people have a problem with.

Being a Wikipedian for at least a year might be a good
idea. 

SV

--- Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 11/13/05, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > My cents: I think this whole checkuser shit is
> totally re-tarded. It's
> > a grave violation of privacy. I have accounts on
> Wikipedia only
> > because I care about my anonymousity (otherwise I
> would edit as an
> > "anon"). I do NOT wan't someone to connect my
> contributions to my
> > identity. Especially not someone I don't know and
> who identifies
> > itself with a random and totally meaningless
> userid!
> >
> > Dumb dumb dumb. Stupid stupid stupid.
> 
> That is why it is only being used by a trusted set
> of users and only under
> strict terms. The developers have always had the
> ability to see your IP. The
> ArbCom needs it to check for sock puppets. 
> 
> -- mav
> 
> 
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