Christiano Moreschi wrote:
Naturally. But half the time, when dealing with cross-wiki disruption, we don't need checkuser. It's something basic: the same hoax on pl and en, or the same crankery being pushed by obviously the same peopl on fr and en. Not everyone uses IRC, which seems to be currently the fastest (only?) way to talk to someone from these other projects.
At the risk of stating the obvious, anything but the silliest and ineffectual forms of disruption on projects in different languages requires a good understanding of those languages. For a hoax to be credible it needs to reflect reasonable linguistic sophistication, and an ability to at least mount a coherent early level defence of the hoax. Native English speakers are notorious for their lack of skills in other languages, so if there is going to be any significant disruptive behaviour from any one individual the other language will more likely have been the first target and English the secondary target.
Smaller sister projects in the same language tend not to have the same high profile as the Wikipedia for that language. They mostly fly below the disruptor's radar.
Ec