On Sat, 2006-17-06 at 19:38 +1000, Nathan Carter wrote:

Michael R. Irwin wrote:

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Is Checkuser is kind of Wikipedia specific or has this function spread to all wikis?

It is used on all wikis. I know it has been used on Wikinews quite a bit lately.

Just to clarify, there have been two CheckUsers performed on Wikinews in the past couple weeks (one involving a string of IPs used by a known sockpuppeteer.) Nathan may be somewhat unaware of volume of requests on en.Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case or on Meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_CheckUser_information/Archives/2006/01.