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CheckUser en · PROPN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From check + user.

Meanings

  1. 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. 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, →ISBN, page 327:
    • Wales wished to delegate the substantive disputes amng editors, determinations of which editors have the "CheckUser" power to check IP addresses of suspected vandals and the oversight power of "enhanced deletion" over libelous material or material that infringes copyright, and decisions about banning users that he had heretofore made on his own. 2014, Thomas Leitch, Wikipedia U, →ISBN:
    • This is the CheckUser software, accessible to a restricted number of admins. CheckUser identifies what IP address registered Wikipedians are accessing the site from. 2009, Mathieu O'Neil, Cyberchiefs: autonomy and authority in online tribes, page 162:
  2. The authority to use such a tool.