Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/2011 CUOS appointments/CU/28bytes
28bytes
Oversight candidate pages: Courcelles • Fluffernutter • WilliamH
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- Nomination statement (250 words max.)
Hello, I am 28bytes, and I would like to help out as a CheckUser. I first began editing Wikipedia part-time in 2006 and became a full-time editor in 2010. I have been active on Wikipedia on at least 350 of the past 365 days; I expect to continue to be a highly-available editor, being on-wiki just about every day to respond to CheckUser requests.
My SPI experience has been "read-only" so far: I have not done any clerking there, but I do regularly read the investigations, and have developed a good sense of when and why a CheckUser is likely to accept or decline a request. I am very familiar with, and wholly supportive of, the CheckUser policy, the WMF privacy policy, and am well over 18 years of age and willing to identify to the Foundation.
Standard questions for all candidates
Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.
- A: I became an administrator earlier this year, and prior to that served as a non-admin edit filter manager. Both roles require a degree of trust and discretion in that they provide the ability to access data (i.e. deleted content and private edit filters) not generally viewable, and I have taken very seriously the requirement to use such access responsibility, not disclosing any sensitive data without an extremely good reason. Similarly, I take very seriously the guidance outlined in the CheckUser and privacy policies as to how to balance the need to maintain an editor's privacy and the need to prevent disruption to the project.
Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.
- A: My full-time job in the information systems industry requires a great deal of data analysis and pattern recognition. In particular, analysis of web server log data is a task I perform regularly that I believe will be helpful background for CheckUser tasks. I hold a bachelor's degree in information management and am currently pursuing a graduate degree.
Do you hold advanced permissions (checkuser, oversight, bureaucrat, steward) on this or other WMF projects? If so, please list them. Also, do you have OTRS permissions? If so, to which queues?
- A: I do not.
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