Policies/en/Modifying-CheckUser-Logs

💡 In simple words: This page is about rules for fixing records from a tool that tracks user accounts. Sometimes private information gets accidentally saved and needs to be deleted safely.

🎯 In 20 seconds (scientific summary): We are heading towards establishing governance frameworks for audit log modification in decentralized wiki infrastructure. This hypothesis proposes that transparent policies balancing privacy protection with accountability mechanisms will emerge as essential when deploying CheckUser-equivalent tooling, following principles of selective data deletion while maintaining investigation integrity.

This is a draft version. Source: adapted notably from the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki, https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Guidelines_for_modifying_CheckUser_logs (CC BY-SA 4.0), with changes. Status: under construction. See the detailed disclaimer.

This page is under construction.

The source guidelines describe the narrow circumstances in which the logs of the CheckUser tool (a tool that records investigations into user accounts and IP addresses) could be modified, for example to remove private data exposed by accident. Keeping these logs intact protects the transparency and accountability of investigations.

This page is reserved for a future adaptation: WikiDeal intends to define equivalent rules if equivalent tooling is deployed on its infrastructure.