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Tiptoety

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Hello everyone. I am Tiptoety. I have been on Wikipedia for a little over three years. In those years, I have spent a fair amount of time dealing with sockpuppetry. I started as a clerk at the former request for CheckUser back in June of 2008. After noticing a number of flaws in the system we were using, I, along with a small group of other users created Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations (our current process for dealing with, and responding to sockpuppetry). I still currently serve as a clerk there.

I was granted sysop rights on this project in March of 2008 and have since performed approximately 14,500 logged actions. I also serve as a Sysop, CheckUser, and Oversight on Wikimedia Commons, and am a Global Sysop. In those roles I deal with a large amount of cross-wiki vandalism/sockpuppetry (most of which is initiated on the CheckUser mailing list). A number of these involve en.wiki in which me having access to the CheckUser tool could assist in investigations and in the speedy response to vandalism. (For all my other userrights, please see my matrix).

One of our current issues is that there are a large amount of request for CheckUser attention that sit untouched for sometimes up to a week. I feel that by me having CheckUser rights I could assist in ensuring the quick handling of cases. I am online every day, and consider myself active. I am reachable via email, and use IRC.

Lastly, I am already identified with the foundation and am very familiar with the privacy policy. My personal philosophy is that if I am unsure, hold off and ask for a second opinion. Tiptoety talk 03:01, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments and questions for Tiptoety

  • Questions from Deskana: (five questions, so I'm only looking for brief answers)
  1. What are the key differences between the checkuser policy and the privacy policy?
  2. What conditions does the checkuser policy require to be met in order to use the checkuser tool on an account?
  3. What conditions does the privacy policy require to be met in order to use the checkuser tool on an account?
  4. What conditions does the checkuser policy give on the release of data from the checkuser tool?
  5. What conditions does the privacy policy give on the release of data from the checkuser tool?
  1. If you are granted CU access, how do you think that will affect you as an editor and an administrator and do you think that will (or should) affect the way that other editors interact with you?
  • Really last minute question from Spitfire
  1. Imagine a scenario where a user has created a vandalism page, which was tagged for speedy deletion, and they then then tried to remove the tag, but upon being stopped by a bot, they appeared to log out and remove the tag that way. The page was later deleted but an SPI case was opened on the user, you preform a check which reveals that the user is related to the IP, what action do you take?
  1. Note: I will not be able to reply until Monday. Tiptoety talk 07:45, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question from User:zzuuzz
  • What actions would you consider taking if you found an editor was using one or more open proxies to edit? Under what circumstances would you reveal this discovery to the community?
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