I like this idea. Not every Tor user is vandal or troll, and assuming that all of them are by default is not assuming good faith. Some people are just really paranoid about their internet anonymity or live in restrictive countries (both of which I sympathize with), so this idea would let them edit in good faith while filtering out vandal/troll edits. It would also be a good idea to apply this to certain IP ranges like government/office buildings for similar reasons.
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:40:53 -0400 From: sumanah@wikimedia.org To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; ella@dymaxion.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we help Tor users make legitimate edits?
This is a quick followup to http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/323006 and partly in keeping with the anti-vandalism discussion at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/392727 as well.
On 12/27/2012 07:26 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
TL;DR: A few ideas follow on how we could possibly help legit editors contribute from behind Tor proxies....
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- Allow more users the IP block exemption, possibly even automatically
after a certain number of unreverted edits, but with some kind of FlaggedRevs integration; Tor users can edit but their changes have to be reviewed before going live. We could combine this with (3); Nymble administrators or token-issuers could pledge to review edits coming from Tor. But that latter idea sounds like a lot of social infrastructure to set up and maintain.
From talking to Eleanor Saitta: could we do FlaggedRevs by IP space, and/or by the intersection of IPs and topic space? Basically, let people edit from Tor IPs (and/or whitelist or blacklist categories) as long as those go through a FlaggedRevs-type process? And we could also do FlaggedRevs on specific IP ranges, like blocks that are known to be certain government office buildings.
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