Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/2023 CUOS appointments

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The Arbitration Committee is soliciting applications, primarily from those who wish to join the CheckUser team, but also from those who might be particularly beneficial to the Oversight team.

Prospective applicants must be familiar with (i) policies relevant to CU and/or OS and (ii) the global privacy policy and related documents. They must have good communication and team-working skills. CheckUser candidates must be familiar with basic networking topics and with SPI tools and techniques, and preferably are willing to volunteer at ACC and/or UTRS.

Applicants must also be:

• an administrator on the English Wikipedia;
• available to regularly assist with the workload;
• familiar with Wikipedia processes, policies, and guidelines;
• at least 18 years of age and have legal majority in their jurisdiction of residence;
• willing to disclose all other accounts they have operated to the committee;
• willing to agree to the WMF Access to Non-Public Information Policy (L37) and the VRT Users Confidentiality Agreement (L45).

We welcome all applicants with suitable interest to apply, but this year we have particular need of checkuser applicants who are:

• Experienced in analyzing behavioral evidence & editing patterns for sockpuppetry investigations.
• Familiar with basic IP addressing, CIDR notation, IPv6, dynamic vs static addressing.
• Engaged with the IP masking initiative.
• Familiar with identification of factors that may affect the interpretation of CU results, such as the IP's ISP (mobile, shared, dynamic, institutional, P2P, proxy, etc), location (countries with atypical ISP setups), activity.
• Active users of non-standard venues, such as IRC, the account creation interface, VRT, the Unblock Ticket Request System, Discord.
• Interested (or better still, experienced) in handling private evidence related to paid editing, including sockpuppetry investigations and reports submitted to the VRT paid editing queue.
• Interested in mentoring editors who wish to become SPI clerks.

We will consider oversight applicants who can strengthen our 24-hour support, notably editors active 0100 to 0600 UTC, likely those resident in Asia and Oceania.

Applicants must be aware that they are likely to receive considerable internal and external scrutiny. External scrutiny may include attempts to investigate on- and off-wiki activities; previous candidates have had personal details revealed and unwanted contact made with employers and family. We are unable to prevent this and such risks will continue if you are successful.