User:Goldenburg111/Request for checkusership

CheckUser

CheckUser is an interface for users with the checkuser permission. A user with CheckUser status on a wiki can in particular check if a user is or isn't a sockpuppet of another user on that wiki (not on all wikis). By using it, users are able to:

• Determine from which IPs a user has edited or done a logged action or password reset on the Wikimedia wiki;
• Determine the edits, logged actions and password resets on the Wikimedia wiki of a specific IP (even when logged in);
• Determine whether the user being checked has sent an email using MediaWiki interface to some other user. The time of the event is logged, the destination email address and user ID are obscured.

This information is only stored for a short period (currently 3 months), so edits made prior to that will not be shown via CheckUser. A log is kept of who has made which queries with the tool. This log is available to those with the checkuser-log permission:

• 13:54, 25 April 2024 CheckUser got IP addresses for Example (talk | contribs | block) (a very good reason for looking at their IPs)
• 13:54, 25 April 2024 CheckUser got users for 127.0.0.1 (another good reason)

See Help:Checkuser (Meta-Wikimedia) for the user manual.