CheckUser

A tool that allows someone to view the IP addresses of a wiki user, in order to identify sock puppets, etc.

Proper noun

  1. A tool that allows someone to view the IP addresses of a wiki user, in order to identify sock puppets, etc.
    • A log of CheckUser actions is visible to all Checkusers. - 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, →ISBN, page 327:
    • This is the CheckUser software, accessible to a restricted number of admins. CheckUser identifies what IP address registered Wikipedians are accessing the site from. - 2009, Mathieu O'Neil, Cyberchiefs: autonomy and...
    • Wales wished to delegate the substantive disputes amng editors, determinations of which editors have the "CheckUser" power to check IP addresses of suspected vandals and the oversight power of "enhanced deletion" over...
  2. The authority to use such a tool.

Origin

From check + user.