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CheckUser policy is mandatory for all of the Wikimedia projects. However, some of them have their own additional policies. This page is intended to be an unofficial collection of these, for comparison.

Wikipedia

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ar – Arabic Wikipedia

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  • 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

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ca – Catalan Wikipedia

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cz – Czech Wikipedia

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da – Danish Wikipedia

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de – German Wikipedia

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  • 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

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  • See the local policy.
  • Must be Administrators
  • Appointed by ArbCom, and removed by ArbCom.
  • Requests at w:en:WP:SPI.

es – Spanish Wikipedia

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fi – Finnish Wikipedia

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fr – French Wikipedia

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he – Hebrew Wikipedia

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hr – Croatian Wikipedia

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hu – Hungarian Wikipedia

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Cases of the check
  1. based on 5 editors' public vote (but there must be more supporting than protesting votes), with valid reason and evidence/suspicion supplied
  2. based on 2 admins' private or public vote
  3. 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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ko – Korean Wikipedia

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ml – Malayalam Wikipedia

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nl – Dutch Wikipedia

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no – Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia

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pl – Polish Wikipedia

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pt – Portuguese Wikipedia

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  • 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

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ru – Russian Wikipedia

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sl – Slovene Wikipedia

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sr – Serbian Wikipedia

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  • 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

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  • 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

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th – Thai Wikipedia

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tr – Turkish Wikipedia

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uk – Ukranian Wikipedia

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vi – Vietnamese Wikipedia

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Other projects

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Wikimedia Commons

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Meta-Wiki

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English Wikibooks

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  • 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.

English Wikinews

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  • 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

English Wikisource

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English Wiktionary

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Wikidata

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Projects with no local CheckUsers

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bs- Bosnian Wikipedia

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  • 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

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  • 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.

English Wikiquote

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  • 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.

English Wikiversity

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English Wikivoyage

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Italian Wikinews

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