CheckUser

For information about CheckUser on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:CheckUser.

CheckUser is a function of a wiki that investigates the IP addresses of an account to enforce blocks.[1][2] Together with manual inspection, it assists in uncovering illegitimate behavior such as spam.[3] This protects the wiki from disruption by any particular group or individual.[4] It can also show all edits from an IP including those by registered users.[5][6]

  1. ^ de Laat, Paul B. (2014-06-01). "From open-source software to Wikipedia: 'Backgrounding' trust by collective monitoring and reputation tracking". Ethics and Information Technology. 16 (2): 157–169. doi:10.1007/s10676-014-9342-9. ISSN 1572-8439.
  2. ^ Walsh, Kathleen M.; Lam, Sarah (February 23, 2010). "Self-Regulation: How Wikipedia Leverages User-Generated Quality Control Under Section 230". SSRN.
  3. ^ West, Andrew G.; Chang, Jian; Venkatasubramanian, Krishna; Sokolsky, Oleg; Lee, Insup (2011-09-01). "Link spamming Wikipedia for profit". Proceedings of the 8th Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference. CEAS '11. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 152–161. doi:10.1145/2030376.2030394. ISBN 978-1-4503-0788-8.
  4. ^ Arazy, Ofer; Nov, Oded; Ortega, Felipe (2014). "The [Wikipedia] world is not flat: 22nd European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2014". ECIS 2014 Proceedings - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems.
  5. ^ Ru Hong, Seah (2006). "KNOWLEDGE CONTRIBUTION IN WIKIPEDIA". Department of Information Systems School of Computing National University of Singapore – via CiteSeerX.
  6. ^ Solorio, T.; Hasan, Ragib; Mizan, M. (2013). "A Case Study of Sockpuppet Detection in Wikipedia" (PDF). The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Retrieved 26 August 2024. Check users are higher privileged editors, who have access to private information regarding editors and edits, such as the IP address from which an editor has logged in.