[Foundation-l] checkuser

[Nathan Carter]

On 7/29/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> As a reminder, current text of the resolution
>
>
> The ombudsman commission will offer a sympathetic ear to those reporting
> an abuse of the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy on any of Wikimedia
> project.
> The ombudsman will take charge of investigating cases of privacy policy
> breach or checkuser abuse for the board in an official manner. He will
> mediate between the complainant and the respondant (checkuser, arbcom
> member, bureaucrat or sysop). When legally necessary, the ombudsman will
> assist the legal commmittee or the legal officer or the executive
> director to handle the case.
> When the case is litigious, the ombudsman will be in charge to educate
> checkusers or others about the Foundation privacy policy.
> When the privacy policy has been breached, the commission should report
> to the Executive Director and recommand a course of action (such as
> removal of checkuser status).
> Additionaly, the commission might have a sort of "overview" over the way
> the checkuser system works and should offer suggestions of suitable
> modifications of policies or recommandations of software changes.
> An Ombudsman's Investigation shall be conducted in a manner determined
> by the Ombudsman and which will be fair and impartial .
>
> I am not convinced it is entirely clear if the role is limited to
> investigating abuse related to "privacy policy" or if it also includes
> abuse related to misuse of the tool (eg, deciding to investigate a case
> without ground).
>
> ant


This is where the clarification is needed. The CharlotteWebb Arbcom case on
ENWP recently illustrated that both ombudsmen and the community are unclear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/CharlotteWebb