CheckUser policy/Local policies

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Comment CheckUser policy is mandatory for all of the Wikimedia projects. However, some of them have their own additional policies. This page is intendended to be an unofficial collection of these, for comparison.

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[edit] Wikipedia

[edit] bs- Bosnian Wikipedia

  • CheckUsers are elected by community. Only user with Sysop status can be elected.
  • Local policy is on Wikipedia:CheckUser
  • Acting only at request at Check
  • Log and decisions are on Check
  • CheckUsers can perform any following blocks/bans themselves

[edit] de – German Wikipedia

  • CheckUsers are elected by the community; they are admins, but do not have any other "higher" local rights (segregation of duties)
  • local policy is at Wikipedia:Checkuser
  • CheckUsers only act on request
  • usually all requests should be made publicly at Wikipedia:Checkuser/Anfragen, fact-based comments by other users are possible
  • private requests are allowed as an exception (when private data, e.g. real names are affected)
  • public log exists, requests and decisions are stored on archive pages (see also bdk's indiv. log)
  • strictly all checks are publicly announced (anonymised if needed, e.g. regarding user names)
  • CheckUsers do not perform any following blocks/bans themselves

[edit] en – English Wikipedia

[edit] es – Spanish Wikipedia

  • No local policy. The Wikimedia wide policy is assumed.
  • Local CU requests: es:WP:SVU
  • No public log.
  • Checks are performed at the CheckUser's discretion.
  • Private requests allowed.
  • If needed, CheckUsers privately discuss the requests before answering.

[edit] fr - French Wikipedia

[edit] hu – Hungarian Wikipedia

Cases of the check
  1. based on 5 editors' public vote (but there must be more supporting than protesting votes), with valid reason and evidence/suspicion supplied
  2. based on 2 admins' private or public vote
  3. based on 2 editors' common request to prove that they are not each other's sockpuppet

CheckUsers are not allowed to run a check without one of these conditions.

Log

There is a public log, in which all the checks are to be listed, with the minimal content of the date and CU's name.

[edit] ja – Japanese Wikipedia

[edit] ko - Korean Wikipedia

[edit] nl - Dutch Wikipedia

[edit] ru – Russian Wikipedia

[edit] zh – Chinese Wikipedia

[edit] Other projects

[edit] Wikimedia Commons

[edit] English Wikiquote

  • No local policy, Wikimedia Checkuser policy is assumed.
  • Requests may come to q:WQ:AN.
  • No public log. Some reports may come to q:WQ:AN.
  • Checks are performed at the checkuser's discretion, and reported to the other local checkusers by email.
  • When a request comes to q:WQ:AN, it is usual to give as detailed a reply as is consistent with privacy, but there is no rule.

[edit] English Wikinews

  • See Local policy
  • Requests may be placed on above-listed page
  • Checking is at Checkuser's discretion
  • Checkusers are expected to request an independent CU complete the check where a conflict may exist
  • Detailed replies will not be given. Only sufficient general information for a course of action to be decided

[edit] English Wikibooks

  • No local policy; the Meta policy is used.
  • Checks are performed at the CheckUsers' discretion, though requests could be made at b:WB:AA.
  • CheckUsers typically perform checks and act on the results independently - there is no request process & detailed results are not revealed. There is no public log.

[edit] English Wiktionary

[edit] English Wikisource