On 8/13/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 13/08/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
That checkusers have the ability to spy on
Wikipedians and checkuser
policy forbids other checkusers from revealing the fact that they did
so is a major problem with Wikipedia.
Has it stopped you editing productively?
It absolutely has cut down my productive editing drastically. Around
the time checkuser came out I started editing solely using TOR, so as
not to reveal my IP address. I even made a script which searches all
the tor exit nodes to find one that isn't blocked by Wikipedia. But
nowadays I rarely bother with this, and most of the tor exit nodes are
now blocked. I set up a TCP tunnel through my friends house which is
where I make my edits while at home. My edits are way down from the
pre-checkuser days, and this is due largely to the introduction of the
checkuser tool and the lack of good policies against abusing it.