Hoi, There is a stigma on being check-usered. When the trusted check user people have a clue that something is wrong and silently investigate an issue they only need to say something when there IS an issue. Nobody needs to know who was investigated why. Only when it is found that a specific person is sock puppeting, it needs to be told that a person was found to be found with his/her hand in the cookie jar.
When the community is informed about real issues then there is no need to discuss if certain people need to be checkusered. People can ASK if something is investigated but when there is no reply unless someone DID investigate and DID find an issue, you will not give the "satisfaction" to the paranoia of some. Thanks, GerardM
On Dec 12, 2007 8:34 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Dec 12, 2007 2:16 PM, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
2007/12/12, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, Why is this exclusively en.wikipedia issue
discussed on Foundation-l ???
Thanks, GerardM
I think the examples are just from en-wikipedia - but the problem is about all Wikimedia projects.
What other projects are having such problems? Considering only a small number of projects have local checkusers and some of those have strong requirements for transparency, I would be very surprised to find this to be a WMF-wide issue. IIRC fr.WP doesn't even allow local checkusers to join checkuser-l because of the lack of transparency of that mailing list.
I doubt this is inherently a checkuser problem anyways. It is just another symptom of the larger dysfunction of the en.WP community.
Birgitte SB
So are other communities immune from this problem, or has it just not hit them yet? Either way, I think input from those outside en.wp would be valuable. If you're immune from the problem, tell us how you got there. If it just hasn't hit you yet, let's work together to solve it before it does.
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