--- Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
What that suggest me is this
We should not have checkusers with the tool access on a one project/one language, but a POOL of COMMON checkusers. Those should all have good technical abilities. Those would have access everywhere. They would be listed on meta with their language ability. The biggest projects would be used to always ask to their favorites. The small languages will try to find the one with a basic knowledge of their language if they wish.
But all in all, checkusers should be a common good, just as our developers right now are (and, hell, just as your board members are).
Ant
I think this is a good solution also. I would also like to see people with current access have an option of joining the pool or not. That should preveent us repeating the problem of thinking we have people to help the smaller project on paper, but in reality no one has the time or else feels uncomfortable working with unfamilar projects. Honestly I am sure there are some members of enWP arcom who have access but do not have time to answer requests at large. I have never had an issue with working through someone else to get this information. I do not mind not having a local checkuser. However I would like to be sure that this pool will actually be made up people who are wiling to make themselves available. And I can understand how the very large projects do need dedicated checkusers for something like arbcom. So I think we need a policy that allows for a large pool of people to work checkuser at large along with some dedicated to projects. I know this sounds alot like the current policy. However the pool of checkusers should be larger and and full of more technical expertise than the pool of stewrads. Also they will be people who have explicitly offered to use their access for problems on small projects. So although it looks similar to current policy on paper, I think that it would have different results.
Birgitte SB
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