Hi,
Le Tuesday 12 April 2005 05:42, Angela a écrit :
Requests have recently been made to the Board asking for verification that a user is sockpuppeting on one of the larger Wikipedias. At least two of the developers felt this was a matter for the Board or for an arbitration committee (although that Wikipedia doesn't have an arbcom), and were therefore not happy to give out details about the IP address of this user. Checking IPs is no longer a developer-only task since a new feature allows sockpuppet checks.
[[Special:CheckUser]] allows a user with "checkuser" permissions to find all the IP addresses used by a particular logged in user, and to show all the contributions from a given IP address, including those made by logged in users.
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I would personally like to see this feature be made available to more communities than just the English Wikipedia, but I am concerned about potential misuse of it, and the violation of privacy for users who have not been disruptive. I would appreciate any comments about this feature, and answers to the questions below, either here or on on Meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CheckUser.
Do you think this feature should be made more widely available?
Yes.
If so, who should be given access to it?
Stewards, bureaucrates.
Should it be limited to stewards, or to wikis with arbitration committees?
Does the privacy policy http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy need be adjusted to allow the use of this feature?
Can't say.
Angela.
Yann