[Foundation-l] (volunteer) job position : Ombudsperson checkuser (or checkuser Ombudsperson or whatever)

[amgine at saewyc.net]

On Sat, 2006-17-06 at 19:38 +1000, Nathan Carter wrote:

> Michael R. Irwin wrote:
>
> >Is Checkuser is kind of Wikipedia specific or has this function spread
> >to all wikis?
> >
> >
> It is used on all wikis. I know it has been used on Wikinews quite a bit
> lately.
>
Just to clarify, there have been two CheckUsers performed on Wikinews in
the past couple weeks (one involving a string of IPs used by a known
sockpuppeteer.) Nathan may be somewhat unaware of volume of requests on
en.Wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case> or on
Meta
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_CheckUser_information/Archives/2006/01>.