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CheckUser

name

Etymology

From check + user.

  1. inherited from usere
  2. compounded as checkuser — “check + user”

Definitions

  1. A tool that allows someone to view the IP addresses of a wiki user, in order to identify…

    A tool that allows someone to view the IP addresses of a wiki user, in order to identify sock puppets, etc.

    • A log of CheckUser actions is visible to all Checkusers.
    • This is the CheckUser software, accessible to a restricted number of admins. CheckUser identifies what IP address registered Wikipedians are accessing the site from.

  2. The authority to use such a tool.

  3. A user who is granted access to view the IP addresses of wiki users, so as to identify…

    A user who is granted access to view the IP addresses of wiki users, so as to identify sock puppets etc.

    • Essjay is serving a second term as chair of the mediation committee. He is also an admin, a bureaucrat, and a checkuser, which means that he is one of fourteen Wikipedians authorized to trace IP addresses in cases of suspected abuse.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA