[Foundation-l] Re: Expanding CheckUser permissions

[David Gerard]

Tim Starling (t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au) [050412 22:40]:
> David Gerard wrote:
> > Jack Lutz (jack-lutz at comcast.net) [050412 14:10]:

> >>I think the log of CheckUser usage must be public; there is no otherwise no
> >>check on abuse.

> > Unfortunately, that will give everyone a damn good idea of what people's
> > IPs are. At present, all access show on the page, so Tim and I can see what
> > each other have accessed. (He's used it precisely twice, to test it ;-)
 
> I put the log in a flat file on NFS
> (/home/wikipedia/logs/checkuser.log), partly to make it easy for
> suspicious developers to check up on what the users have been doing with
> it. So it's not just two people overseeing each other. I'd prefer it if
> more people could view the log, but for privacy reasons we can't make it
> public at this stage. If there's sufficient demand, we could probably
> make partial logs available -- say, just the usernames but not the IP
> addresses.


I can see the creatively antisocial trying to use that as a point against
other editors they are in combat with.


- d.