PS: Not to single anyone out.
AIUI the check-logs, ie. the who checked what about who logs are public, no? If not, certainly a list could be sanitized of IPs for public posting.
SV
--- steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
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@yahoo.com wrote:
On 11/13/05, BJörn Lindqvist bjourne@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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