(Was Ipblock exempt proposal for en wiki)
This seems like something that, while it affects primarily en.wiki, should be run by the Foundation because of the potentially serious PR consequences (Wikipedia makes it impossible to edit from China etc.).
If a solution of generally blocking Tor exit nodes (prior to abuse from that specific node) is adopted it looks like the technical solution provided by RonaldB is by far the best option. It offers constant updating, operation by an experienced expert and quick (relatively) unblocks of former Tor exit nodes.
Others have raised a good point, though: The trade off is between vandalism by TOR users and editing from China / other nations with selecting blocking of Wikipedia.
In any event, it looks like the link provided by Mercury has dissolved into indecision and it seems unlikely much will come from it (except sniping between Mercury and Raul...).
Nathan
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On a ip hardblock, can't do anything but read. Ip exempt would permit a bypass per username.
Merc
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:16 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Ipblock exempt proposal for en wiki
Can you login from a TOR node? Or is traffic from TOR banned completely? If you can login, I don't see the problem. Frankly, I think logging in to make a substantial edit isn't a bad idea. The old argument is that a great deal (perhaps the majority) of content has come from IPs. True probably, but only because they didn't have to log in!
On Jan 14, 2008 7:13 PM, Majorly axel9891@googlemail.com wrote:
On 15/01/2008, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
This mentality must change before any process can move forward.
Chad
Oh indeed.
-- Alex (Majorly)
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