I agree with Kelly entirely. Additionally, I'm willing to serve in the same capacity; I don't have the length of tenure with checkuser that Kelly does, but I have been quite active in using it for en.wikipedia, and am certainly willing to do so elsewhere as needed.
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Kelly Martin wrote:
On 4/14/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Option 4 What about a global community approval (todo on meta) for a collection of people who could do checkuser on absolutely any project and absolutely any language. Those would NOT be stewards. Only checkusers.
Option 5 Same than option 4, but for language only. For example, 10 english speaking editors would be checkusers on en.wiki, en. wikibooks, en.wikiquote etc... And a set would have checkuser on commons.
I think both of these has merit. I've previously indicated that I would be willing to serve as a "guest checkuser" on any project where I can either read the language used (en or de) or where someone trustworthy is available to collaborate with me (e.g. a local bureaucrat or a steward with the appropriate language experience). Checkuser requires both (a) technical knowledge of how to use it to get useful results and (b) trustworthiness not to misuse the tool or the results. Most of the checkuser policy is catholic; local policy doesn't come all that much into play, and the checkuser can coordinate with local admins and bureaucrats to resolve questions as to whether, e.g., a local policy violation has occured.
I think option 5 is probably best insofar as translation issues become problematic. However, there are a number of wikis (the gaggle of wikis for the Eastern European languages) that probably need a checkuser and may not be likely to produce one sufficiently trustworthy to meet the Foundation's requirements.
Also, I suspect Brad (based on my conversation with him) would prefer that we avoid proliferating the number of checkusers; using pooled checkusers across projects as much as practical is likely a better solution than having lots of local checkusers, from that standpoint.
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