On 12/28/2012 12:43 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
On 12/28/2012 12:39 PM, David Gerard wrote:
On 28 December 2012 17:36, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
The big one, as I see it (quoting from https://www.torproject.org/ ): "Activists use Tor to anonymously report abuses from danger zones. Whistleblowers use Tor to safely report on corruption." Iran, Burma, and China come up a lot in these discussions. Also, sometimes editors want to avoid surveillance from an ISP or employer.
The use case is not so much Wikipedia, then. Wikinews, however.
Commons and potentially Wikisource seem like possibilities as well. And perhaps less English Wikipedia than the Farsi, Chinese, and Burmese Wikipedias?
By the way, I fiddled with the metrics at https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?table=censorship-events&start=... and got this list of countries: China, United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Korea, Ethiopia, Philippines, Seychelles, Iran, Pakistan, Gibraltar, and Bangladesh.
Freedom House on the countries & territories that are worst re: freedom of expression: http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/worst-worst-2012-worlds-m... : Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tibet, Western Sahara, Belarus, Burma, Chad, China, Cuba, Laos, Libya, and the territory of South Ossetia.