[Foundation-l] new checkuser policy

Tue Apr 18 23:41:05 UTC 2006

You may find a new version of the checkuser access policy here

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CheckUser_Policy#Access_.28new_version.29

the main differences are
* it takes into account the fact some local communities with arbcom do 
not necessarily want to delegate appointement of checkusers to their arbcom
* any local project may choose at least 2 people amongst the already 
approved checkusers, with localized requirement (the local community 
choose itself percentage of support, minimum number of votes etc...)

Which would allow to make Essjay and Karynn checkuser on en.wikibooks if 
the en.wikibooks is happy with this.

Warning : the idea is not that all checkusers be selected by wikipedias 
and later imposed on other projects. The idea is rather that generally, 
a person widely supported in one project to do a job... is some one we 
generally trust to do the job properly anywhere.

So, if wikicommons wants to appoints 5 checkusers from 5 different 
languages, all those 5 may serve on various other projects. The one 
requirement to keep though : always at least 2 checkusers per project.

Opinion ? Please comment on the meta page. Trolls not welcome. I do not 
have the time this week :-)

ant