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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.
ca – Catalan Wikipedia
cz – Czech Wikipedia
da – Danish Wikipedia
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-checkuserconnect
- 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.
fi – Finnish Wikipedia
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
he – Hebrew Wikipedia
hr – Croatian Wikipedia
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
- based on 5 editors' public vote (but there must be more supporting than protesting votes), with valid reason and evidence/suspicion supplied
- based on 2 admins' private or public vote
- 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.
ml – Malayalam Wikipedia
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.
no – Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia
pl – Polish Wikipedia
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.
ro – Romanian Wikipedia
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.
sl – Slovene Wikipedia
sr – Serbian Wikipedia
- CU access is appointed/removed by voting according to the global policy (at least 70%-80% votes of support and with at least 25-30 editors' approval). 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.
sv – Swedish 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).
tr – Turkish Wikipedia
uk – Ukranian Wikipedia
vi – Vietnamese Wikipedia
- See here
- Local CU requests: commons:Commons:Requests for checkuser.
- Checks are performed at the CheckUser's discretion.
- No public log.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- See local policy.
- Requests at wikt:en:WT:CU.
- Local policy.
- request at d:Wikidata:Requests for checkuser
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.
- 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.
- Local policy.
- Former request page: v:en:Wikiversity:Requests for CheckUser.
- No local checkusers.
- Local policy.
- No local checkusers.
- Local policy
- No local checkusers.