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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
Is there any reason why this shouldn't log to the local log with the IP addresses munged?
Err. Yes, yes there is. Read, well, every single bloody "oh, but please, why not make the CheckUser logs public?!? OK, in obfuscated form, then? Why not? Umm!?" discussion spread over meta, foundation-l, etc. for the past few months for an at-length treatise, but, essentially: that checks are carried out is privileged information. There is nothing that can be logged (even down to "User XYZ made <number> CheckUser checks on <date>") that doesn't undermine the usefulness of CheckUser in both technical and (especially) sociological senses. Further, logging with IP addresses munged would certainly not be releasable information under the privacy policy, so it would serve no point. Local logging could work, I suppose, but would make it more complicated to follow the actions of one CheckUser user.
OTOH, using the proper standard logging facility but in a shared manner across all wikis, with restrictable fields (wiki, time frame, user, IP range matching, CheckUser user, etc.) would be ideal. But quite a lot of work, I'd imagine.
Yours, - -- James D. Forrester Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] E-Mail : james@jdforrester.org IM (MSN) : jamesdforrester@hotmail.com