Sam Fentress (Asbestos) wrote:
Why not make the checkuser function available to all admins?
Privacy concerns - IPs are hot information. The Foundation is understandably *really touchy* about this stuff. Anyone who has checkuser now is known directly to the stewards and/or the ACs as someone who takes this stuff seriously; adding anyone else will be a slow process.
This is not a strike on anyone who hasn't been picked - it's just justifiable paranoia :-)
The other matters are finding people with enough technical knowledge of the funny little ways of the Internet (though that's easy because we have lots of those) *and* enough about the funny little ways of good and bad editors on the wikis (a little harder, but we have lots of those too).
I think we have enough checkers on en: right now. Kelly Martin's been doing a lot of it of late, taking a great deal of the load off me, so I'm coping better with the requests I've got!
(I'm considering going active on the AC again for the last two weeks of the year to help clean up, but don't know WHERE I'm going to get the time ... the holiday season has been absolutely batshit crazy so far.)
I trust all our admins to a large extent - you don't get through RFA without having some sense and judgement - but not *that* much.
- d.