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

The community consultation phase is closed. The Committee has announced the appointments.

The current time and date is.

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.

Appointment process

 * Dates are provisional and subject to change


 * Applications: 4 September to 16 September
 * Candidates self-nominate by email to . Each candidate will receive an application questionnaire to be completed and returned to the arbcom-en-c mailing list before the nomination period ends. The questionnaire will include a nomination statement, to a maximum of 250 words, for inclusion on the candidate's public nomination sub-page(s).


 * Review period: 17 September to 18 September
 * was 17 September to 21 September
 * The committee will review applications and ask the functionary team for their feedback.


 * Notification of candidates: 18 September
 * was 21 September to 24 September
 * The committee will notify candidates going forward for community consultation and create the candidate subpages containing the submitted nomination statements.


 * Community consultation:  19 September to 23 September
 * was 25 September to 4 October
 * Nomination statements will be published and candidates invited to answer questions publicly. The community is invited to participate. Please note changes from previous consultation phases:


 * Editors may ask a maximum of two questions per candidate;
 * Editors may comment on each candidate with a limit of 500 words, including replies to other editors. Discussion will be sectioned and monitored by the Arbitration Committee and the clerks;
 * Please refrain from bolded votes, as this is a consultation and not a community consensus.


 * Comments may be posted on the candidates' subpages or submitted privately by email to . Editors are encouraged to include a detailed rationale, supported by relevant links where appropriate.


 * Appointments: by 15 October
 * The committee will review community comments and other relevant factors, finalize an internal resolution, and publish the resulting appointments. Successful candidates are required to sign the Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information prior to receiving permissions. Oversighters and CheckUsers who intend to work the VRT paid editing queue must sign the VRT Users Confidentiality Agreement.

=Candidates= To comment on candidates, please use section edit buttons to edit the appropriate candidate subpage(s).