On Dec 12, 2007 9:55 AM, elisabeth bauer <eflebeth(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
2007/12/12, Florence Devouard
<Anthere9(a)yahoo.com>om>:
Making it mandatory to publicly log checkusers
actions
Not sure how that would work, as the actions of checkusers often
reveals the results.
True. German wikipedia does that. Not sure what the impacts are with
regards to privacy policy.
Maybe I should clarify here: In the german wikipedia, all checkuser
requests are requested in public (other wikipedias have a similar
request page). On this page the requester has to provide two things:
a) evidence why a sockpuppet suspicion seems likely and b) explain why
it would be an abuse of sockpuppets.
The checkusers accept or deny the request and - if we made a check -
say if the suspicion was correct or false (and eventually list
additional sockpuppets if found)
Ah, I misunderstood. I thought the suggestion was to make the raw
logs public. Doing something like this, where the requests and
results had to be made public, and anyone caught making a checkuser
request outside this procedure had her privileges removed, wouldn't
reveal the particular private information. OTOH, I don't think
promoting public accusations of sockpuppetry is a good thing, at least
not on a Wikipedia like the English Wikipedia where mean-spirited
accusations run rampant. Maybe the Germans can play nicely, but I
don't think it'd be pretty on en.wp.