Tony Sidaway said:
Angela said:
If anyone else would like to add to these comments, please do so at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CheckUser so that decisions can be made about how this feature should be used, and who should be able to use it.
Thanks. I've outlined my thoughts in a section titled (appropriately) "At discretion of arbcom, subject to veto".
..or would if I could!
I get a maintenance lock right now.
Here's the text:
At discretion of arbcom, subject to veto
All the gubbins seems to me to be a symptom of our understandable suspicion about abuse of this feature. The best solution to me seems to be to place this feature at the discretion of the arbitration apparatus of each individual Wiki, subject to veto, separately, by the board and Jimbo. Power to flip the appropriate bits to grant or revoke the ability to use this feature should continue to reside with whoever has it now, who as de facto custodian of user privacy would have an absolute veto. Arbcom should also be responsible for ensuring that the feature is used only according to its instructions. The log of all accesses of this feature (when used and by whom) should be public if possible. Further information should not be made available but should be available by a report run by the developers on request of arbcom. User:Tony Sidaway 15:30, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)