Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:12:19 -0400 From: "Casey Brown" cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] TorBlock extension enabled To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Jonas Rand joeyyuan@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.
Just a note, this isn't a proposal. It is a notification or "heads-up" about an already installed[2], global (all of Wikimedia) extension.[3]
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version [3]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock
Thank you.
Jonas