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Logo for the Wikipedia CheckUser tool and the checkuser team. A CheckUser is a Wikipedia user account that actively holds the CheckUser user permissions. It is a functionary-level of privileged access that is granted to a small group of trusted Wikipedia users, which allows them to access the CheckUser tool and its features.
Welcome to the user page design guide. In this multi-page guide, you will find advice on how to develop your user page, and resources that you can copy and paste to make it easier. Eventually, many Wikipedians turn their attention to their user pages. A nice user page can create a stronger tie between a user and the community, but it can be a ...
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CheckUser is a function of MediaWiki 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 ]
Users who are granted and possess the CheckUser flag (checkuser user group) have access to Special:CheckUser, a function page that allows them to view a list of all IP addresses that have been used by a user account to edit the English Wikipedia, an extended list of all edits made from an IP address or range (which includes edits that were made ...
In addition to the usual information accessible from an article page such as page history, "Discuss this page" and the like, users visiting user and user talk pages can also click "User contributions" (in the sidebar or at the bottom of the page) to see what contributions you have made at Wikipedia over time, and "Logs" to see records of other ...
This affords the opportunity to add the talk page and special pages to the mix (like displaying the user's contributions and other display commands from Wikipedia's "special" menu). Some menus look just like navigation bars, others have icons, some are integrated into the page's border, and others are vertical lists (usually boxed).
The CheckUser policy is a policy which governs the use of the CheckUser tool on Wikimedia projects. It may refer to: The global CheckUser policy on the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, which applies to all Wikimedia projects; The local CheckUser policy governing the use of CheckUser on the English Wikipedia