Puddl Duk (puddlduk@gmail.com) [050414 03:18]:
On 4/12/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Users should be notified when CheckUser is run on them (something like a message notice, that only they can see). Waerth noted that this
You're writing the code to do this, then?
No, I'm not. You've a suggestion for user notification that doesn't require code?
Email isn't reliable, in that a lot of people don't have it set up. And the "Email this user" form doesn't tell you if the message was sent or silently vanished.
Finally, notifying a registered user when their identity is checked is just a decent thing to do.
There is that. OTOH, when I was investigating the socks of the 'Baku Ibne' troll, I came across use of the same IPs by good users and checked their IPs as well. Now, should we be revealing too much information to them about an ongoing investigation? And also: any website will look through the logs in detail if they suspect abuse. The devs do this *all the time already*. And they *do not* notify anyone in particular. The key to this feature is not doing anything that isn't done already, it's giving access to a small subset of it to people who aren't actually Wikimedia system administrators, mostly so the system administrators can get on with running the site.
Sure, dev's do this *all the time already*, but were talking about expanding a new feature to non-devs. There should be transperency and accountability to check possible abuse.
Something may well be a good idea. The ones I've looked at have been arbcom cases in progress or tracking lack of compliance; these get a note on the Arb Com 'dev assistance requested' page and/or an email to the arbcom mailing list, which Jimbo is on (and reads).
These notes need to go on [[m:CheckUser]]!
- d.