[Foundation-l] Re: Expanding CheckUser permissions

Tue Apr 12 12:39:06 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:
> Jack Lutz (jack-lutz at comcast.net) [050412 14:10]:
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>>I think the log of CheckUser usage must be public; there is no otherwise no
>>check on abuse.
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> 
> 
> 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.

-- Tim Starling