On 6/21/06, Daniel Arnold arnomane@gmx.de wrote:
en.wikipedia (and some other smaller projects as well) have overproportional heavy use of CheckUser.
I disagree. en.wikipedia receives far more traffic than any other wiki. en.wikipedia receives more edits than any other wiki. I expect it would follow that en.wikipedia receives a similarly high proportion of trolling and sockpuppetry.
You quoted "> 50%" of checkuser uses are on en.wikipedia. Looking at traffic figures (Alexa), this seems about right.
Perhaps it is more de.wikipedia using CheckUser proportionally very little rather than en.wikipedia using it proportionally very much.