On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
There is also a discussion at WT:CHECUSER about changing the policy to make disclosure of checks mandatory upon request. It seems like it'd be simpler (and far less bureaucratic) to implement an extension that notifies someone using the email function when they have been checked, by whom perhaps, and with the reason given. Assuming, of course, consensus forms that notification serves a useful purpose (I'm not sure it does).
One possible reason I can see a benefit to having people notified (just playing Devil's advocate for someone, or multiple someones) is that a good faith user may have an interest in knowing they were Checked, and why. For some users even the fact they were checked may be a privacy issue. Just throwing that out there.
From a technical standpoint, if something like this were to go forward,
wouldn't it be smarter or at least better from a management standpoint so that Checkusers don't get flooded with requests to do a software change where all Checkuser Log entries specific to just your own username appear in some hidden area of your preferences? Of course, stripping out IP checks for obvious reasons. Just parse the bits specific to checks directly on [[User:Whatever]] and put them in there.
- Joe