On 6/4/08, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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From: Andrew Garrett <andrew(a)epstone.net>
Date: 2008/6/4
Subject: [Wikitech-l] TorBlock extension enabled
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
After working through the code with Tim for a few hours this
afternoon, the TorBlock extension has been enabled on Wikimedia.
The TorBlock extension will override local IP blocks to provide a
consistent treatment of tor. Currently, this involves allowing only
logged-in users to edit, and requiring tor users to have 100 edits,
and a 90-day-old account, prior to being autoconfirmed.
Hopefully, this will provide a balance between allowing users to edit
through tor without the difficult process of granting per-wiki IP
block exemptions, and preventing pagemove vandals (such as the user
known as 'Grawp' on English) from using Tor for vandalism and so on.
I haven't yet implemented this, but I am interested in the prospect of
marking Tor users as such on either CheckUser, or (privacy policy
depending) on Recent Changes.
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Andrew Garrett
This is certainly interesting, but I cannot seem to find any
documentation on how exactly this would 'work'. Is it opt-in? Do
admins have to do something?
For example, today I re-enabled Tor and I tried creating a redirect. I
was blocked with the normal Tor block pages regardless of whether I
was going through
secure.wikimedia.org or en; my account has been
around for hundreds of days, has like 30k edits, rollback & move
privileges and so on, so if I am understanding this right, I should've
been able to create the page just fine. But I couldn't, so I didn't.
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gwern