Puddl Duk (puddlduk(a)gmail.com) [050414 03:18]:
On 4/12/05, David Gerard
<fun(a)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.