[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee members granted checkuser tool

[jkelly at fas.harvard.edu]

  It is unclear to me how user IP-hiding furthers the goal of writing an
encyclopedia.  Denying Arbitration Committee members the ability to check a
user's IP seems to be imposing inefficiency on an over-burdened community
resource.  That this is an issue is confusing to me.

Jkelly




Quoting BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com>:

> 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.