roc wrote:
Many Chinese editors, including me, have the same
concern as what
Essjay said, and that is why we currently do not have any checkusers
local to zhwiki
(
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Checkuser). People worry
about the possibility that the IP addresses of registered users may be
leaked to evil hands or regimes (the currently ruling Chinese
Communist Party is exercising more and more control over Internet for
its own interests); if that happened, both the individuals and the
Foundation would suffer; although the chance is low, one incident
would be enough. Currently, we give our trust to the few users
appointed by the Foundation, so I think that any new procedures for
cross-project checkusers need to put this worry in consideration. (The
Chinese community continue to debate whether we really need local
checkusers and what more stringent selecting criteria and monitoring
procedures for local checkusers should be adopted.)
roc (zh:User:R.O.C)
Ermmm, Roc... just to clarify...
None of the checkusers have been appointed by the Foundation. They were
all chosen by their local communities.
None of the stewards (who can do checkuser as well) have been appointed
by the Foundation either. They were all elected on meta, by editors.
This said, the Foundation, I believe, know all current stewards and
trust them.
We only know half of those with checkuser access though.
ant