I have to say that there is an unnecessary lack of transparency which seems to get worse. In or around May 2012 I emailed the audit committee on EN:WP to ask about checkuser run on my account and got a polite and informative reply. In or around May 2014 an identically worded query got a polite refusal.
Note, incidentally that those who run checkuser are often working from the UK, and are quite likely under a legal obligation make this information available.
On 3 August 2014 03:15, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
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I could be wrong, but it was my understanding that the logs are
maintained
indefinitely but the data is retained for only 3 months (i.e. the results of the check that is recorded in the log).
The checkuser log are kept indefinitely, but it only records what usernames/IPs that were checked (i.e. the query), and the reason given by the checkuser for the check.
It does not record the results of the query.
That said, the sequence of checks run by a CU often creates a permanent record in the private CU log of an persons likely IP addresses. e.g. the log may contain a check on an account, with a reason given, followed by checks on IPs, with the same reason logged.
-- John Vandenberg
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