CheckUser policy/Local policies

Wikipedia

ar – Arabic Wikipedia

• Local policy is at ar:ويكيبيديا:تدقيق مستخدم.
• There is a separate mailing list for Arabic Wikipedia checkusers.
• Checkusers who haven't used their checkuser access for more than a year will have their rights removed. (Point 1 of section 2.3 of the local rights removal policy.)
• Inactive checkusers should be warned in their talk pages and by email (if they have set a valid email address in their preferences) before rights removal.
• Inactive checkusers who had their rights removed can request to be reinstated as checkusers in the 3 months following their rights removal. After that period, they can only regain their rights by a new vote.

bn – Bengali Wikipedia

• Local policy: উইকিপিডিয়া:ব্যবহারকারী পরীক্ষক, উইকিপিডিয়া:ব্যবহারকারী পরীক্ষক অধিকারের আবেদন.
• Must be Administrators
• Local policy mandates that only users who gain at least 25 votes in favor and 80% support can be appointed (application will open for no less than 30 days).
• Checkusers who haven't used their checkuser access for more than a year will have their rights removed.

de – German Wikipedia

• CheckUsers are elected by the community; they are admins (only technically if not elected as an admin before), but do not have any other "higher" local rights such as arbitrator, bureaucrat, or oversight (segregation of duties).
• Local policy is at Wikipedia:Checkuser.
• CheckUsers only act on request, which 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.
• Strictly all checks (also those from stewards and Office Actions) are publicly announced (anonymised if needed, e.g. regarding user names).
• Checkusers don't perform any bans/blocks, they leave the decision on this to the administrators.

en – English Wikipedia

• See the local policy.
• Must be Administrators
• Appointed by ArbCom, and removed by ArbCom.
• Requests at w:en:WP:SPI.

es – Spanish Wikipedia

• CheckUsers are appointed by the community only. Due to a new rule, only users that reach at least 30 votes in favor and 80% support may become CheckUsers.
• No local policy. The Wikimedia-wide CheckUser policy is to be used.
  • Local information page: Wikipedia:Checkusers.
  • Requests for CheckUser access: Wikipedia:Checkusers/Candidaturas.
• Requests for CheckUser information may be done at Wikipedia:Solicitudes de verificación de usuarios.
  • IRC channel: #wikipedia-es-checkuser^connect
• No public log.
• Checks are performed at the CheckUser's discretion.
• Private requests allowed.
• If needed, CheckUsers privately discuss the requests before answering.
• CheckUsers may perform any blocks themselves; but it is not mandatory.

fr – French Wikipedia

• Local policy is described at w:fr:Wikipédia:Vérificateur d'adresses IP
• CUs are nominated by the local ArbCom. They are not necessarily admins; if they aren't, they are granted the permission to view deleted content.
• Local requests are at w:fr:Wikipédia:Vérificateur d'adresses IP/Requêtes
• CheckUsers usually do not block accounts themselves, except for open proxies or misconfigured servers

hu – Hungarian Wikipedia

• Local policy: here and here (the latter with some English translation, both to be revised in the near future)
• Local CU requests: hu:Wikipédia:IP-ellenőrzési kérések#Kérések
• Local public log: hu:Wikipédia:IP-ellenőrzési kérések/Napló
• Draft of the forthcoming new policy: hu:User:Bináris/elvterv (only for Hungarian speakers)

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.

id – Indonesian Wikipedia

• CheckUsers are elected by community. Only user with Sysop status can be elected.
• CheckUsers are elected with no limits on the term
• Local policy is on id:Wikipedia:CheckUser
• Request can be made on id:WP:IPS
• CheckUsers can perform any following blocks/bans themselves

it – Italian Wikipedia

• CheckUsers are elected by community. Only user with Sysop status can be elected.
• CheckUsers are elected for a year, with no limits on the number of re-election
• Local policy is on Wikipedia:CheckUser
• Request can be made on it:WP:RCU
• CheckUsers can perform any following blocks/bans themselves

ja – Japanese Wikipedia

• Local policy: ja:Wikipedia:CheckUserの方針
• Local CU requests: ja:Wikipedia:CheckUser依頼
• Checks may be performed at the CheckUser's discretion.
• No public log.
• How to grant status: Community vote, 30+ and 75%+. Sysop access is required before requesting CU access.

ko – Korean Wikipedia

• Local Policy: ko:위키백과:검사관
• Local discussions for RFCU: ko:위키백과:다중 계정 검사 요청
  • Requests should be made on local first and should be discussed locally.
• It is permitted to check by CheckUser's discretion only for Global Banned user, spambot or cross-wiki abuser.
• No public log.

nl – Dutch Wikipedia

• CU are appointed by the local arbcom
• No local policy, Wikimedia Checkuser policy is assumed.
• CU requests can be made on w:nl:Wikipedia:Verzoekpagina voor moderatoren/Sokpoppen
• No public log.
• Checks may be performed at the checkuser's discretion, and are reported to the other local checkusers by email.
• When a request comes to w:nl:Wikipedia:Verzoekpagina voor moderatoren/Sokpoppen, it is usual to give as detailed a reply as is consistent with privacy.

pt – Portuguese Wikipedia

• See the local policy;
• Must be administrators;
• Elected by community with at least 25 votes and 75% of favorable votes;
• The voting period should not be less than 7 days, nor more than 30 days;
• Interested users receive notices about RfCUs by MassMessage;
• CheckUsers are elected for 2 years, with no term limits;
• Checkusers who haven't used their tools for more than 6 months will have their rights removed;
• Requests at WP:PV.

ru – Russian Wikipedia

• CU are appointed by the local arbcom
• There is no local policy. According to this decision of Arbitration Committee the Wikimedia CheckUser policy policy is assumed.
• Local CU requests: ru:Википедия:Проверка участников
• No public log.
• CheckUsers can perform any following blocks/bans themselves.

sr – Serbian Wikipedia

• CU access is appointed/removed by voting with at least 80% of voters and 25 editors in support. They are allowed to be administrators, but cannot be bureaucrats at the same time.
• CU requests should be send by e-mail to the User:Checkuser which is checked regularly by local checkusers. It is forbidden to accuse publicly anyone for sockpuppeting.
• After the check has been performed, and if a sockpuppeting is discovered, a checkuser report is given at local Village Pump. If the checking doesn't give any results, no report is publicly presented.
• No public log.
• Checkusers don't perform any bans/blocks, but recommend them, and leave the decision on this to the administrators.

simple – Simple English Wikipedia

• Checkusers are appointed after a local election on Request for Permissions. There must be at least 25 support votes as per global policy with a 70% support. The election period is no more then one month.
• Simple Wikipedia does not support 'neutral votes', they are seen as comments, and do not count towards the total number of votes.
• Per local guideline only administrators can apply for the checkuser role.
• As they are admins, checkusers can peform blocks, if necessary.

th – Thai Wikipedia

• Local Policy: วิกิพีเดีย:การตรวจสอบผู้ใช้ (mostly translated from the 2012 version of English Wikipedia policy, with some changes).
• CheckUsers are not required to be Administrator, though the nomination and criteria shall be in the same manner as with Request for Adminship (account of no less than 1 year and 1,000 edits).
• CheckUser may be requested at Sockpuppet Investigations. Since October 2019, public log is available from the SPI page and its subpage (earlier checks are recorded elsewhere).
• CheckUsers may Block/Ban accounts based on CheckUser results (if they are sysops).

Other projects

Wikimedia Commons

• See here
• Local CU requests: commons:Commons:Requests for checkuser.
• Checks are performed at the CheckUser's discretion.
• No public log.

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.

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

English Wikisource

• See local policy.
• Checks must either be public, or discussed on checkuser-l.
• A meaningful justification for each check must be published on the Wikisource:Administrator's noticeboard whenever one is possible without violating privacy.
• Requests at s:en:WS:AN, s:en:User talk:billinghurst or s:en:User talk:Spangineer.

English Wiktionary

• See local policy.
• Requests at wikt:en:WT:CU.

Wikidata

• Local policy.
• request at d:Wikidata:Requests for checkuser

Projects with no local CheckUsers

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

zh – Chinese Wikipedia

• There are no users with CheckUser permissions since 30 March 2018 due to security concerns from WMF staffs.
  • In 13 January 2022, WMF announced the requirements to un-freeze CU elections, it's still unclear whether zhwiki community has acknowledged them or not.
• Local policy is at zh:Wikipedia:用戶查核方針, note that some local users reported that some Stewards may not recognize it, and enforce just the global Checkuser policy for their zhwiki actions.
• CheckUsers can act in one of these situations:
  • (RFCU) On request (public or private);
  • (CUP1) To block underlying IPs of an account, where the autoblock has expired or been ineffective. Sockpuppets found may also be blocked.
  • (CUP2) Collateral damage checks for the hardblocking of IPs or ranges.
  • (CUP3) IP block exemption checks before granting IPBE (or to verify it is being used constructively).
• Currently, CU requests are handling at zh:WP:SPI with reviews, if there are reasons to believe that actions from Meta-Wiki are really needed, one of the administrators or SPI clearks may transfer the requests to SRCU.
• CheckUsers may perform any blocks themselves; but it is not mandatory.
• The status of CheckUser usage were available at zh:Wikipedia:用戶查核/統計.

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.
• Currently no local CheckUsers.

English Wikiversity

• Local policy.
• Former request page: v:en:Wikiversity:Requests for CheckUser.
• No local checkusers.

English Wikivoyage

• Local policy.
• No local checkusers.

Italian Wikinews

• Local policy
• No local checkusers.