Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:12:19 -0400
From: "Casey Brown" <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] TorBlock extension enabled
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Jonas Rand
<joeyyuan(a)cox.net> wrote:
I think this is a good idea, as far as
soft-blocking or. However, the
"autoconfirmed, 100 edits, 90 days" is not, because the users with Tor
should be allowed to use it, if it protects them from privacy. It should
not
be softblocked until an editor is an "experienced editor", because it is
an
assumption of bad faith for Wikipedia to assume that an editor does not
have
good intentions because they aren't "prolific".
I can understand if this is a cautionary measure, however just because an
editor hasn't made 100 edits and stayed there for 90 days, does not mean
they are vandals or sleeper accounts. This is a flaw in the proposal, and
should be fixed.
Of course, but this does not stop them from editing -- only from
editing semi-protected pages or other things that require an
autoconfirmed account[1]. Tor is too often abused (globally, on all
Wikimedia sites), so I assume the longer autoconfirmed information is
the price of having that level of privacy.
Well, I thought that softblocking was enabled for all registered accounts
(not just autoconfirmed ones). Therefore, it shouldn't be the Tor rule that
should change, but the softblocking rule altogether, so that all registered
accounts are softblocked.