Due to Internet censorship by the Singapore government, I am forced to
edit through a proxy shared by 300,000 users. Many anonymous vandals
use that IP address, and being the collateral damage of blocks is
common. Note, however, that this is not an open proxy.
On 2/18/07, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To put this thing to something that actually belongs
on foundation-l: I
would favor repealing the foundation policy that open proxies are blocked.
My reasons are:
* Main reason for the policy is that there is no reason for editing
Wikipedia from a proxy. I disagree, seeing already three;
** Editing on subjects where one could get problems for writing from a
searching POV and/or NPOV
** People who always use a proxy for extra anonymity and have to switch it
off to work on Wikipedia now
** Cases like Waerth who are automatically sent through an anonymous proxy
by their provider
* Large-scale vandalism using many proxies does occur, but is rare enough
that blocking the proxies when they are being used for vandalism is no big
issue.
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Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
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