[Foundation-l] Re: Expanding CheckUser permissions

Sun Apr 17 19:32:23 UTC 2005

>
>That's a good idea! Add it to [[m:CheckUser]] ;-)
>
>Since the community hasn't added much that's solid or elegant in the way of
>guidelines for my non-dev use of the function, I plan to add outlines for
>my future use of the function to m:CheckUser and see who screams. Something
>along the lines of "any strong suspicion of sockpuppetry to violate ArbCom
>ban or restriction" as well as the current criterion I use, which is
>"well-founded suspicion of sockpuppetry in current ArbCom case" or similar.
>And see who screams and how loud.
>
>  
>
This is difficult. It could only be implemented for the english pedia. 
As it would be impossible for say someone from the Japanese pedia to run 
for this as he/she would be unknown outside their own projects. This is 
also the reason why the vote for boardmembers will result most probably 
in two people from en.wikipedia being choosen.

Waerth/Walter