In practice, soft-blocking proxies is the same as not blocking them at
all. On the CheckUser list there is considerable opposition to what
appears to be a unilateral over-riding of both local and meta policy,
creating a new policy that might work for a little edited wiki but
would not be appropriate at all on wiki-en. I encourage the developers
to ensure that this change has wide acceptance at the local level and
support from the Foundation before implementing.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:03 PM, DanTMan <dan_the_man(a)telus.net> wrote:
^_^ Nice, a way to block tor.
Sounds like a ToInstall on my own servers. There's absolutely no valid
reason for anyone to use Tor to access my sites.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Nadir-Point Group (
http://nadir-point.com)
--It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (
http://wiki-tools.com)
--Games-G.P.S. (
http://ggps.org)
-And Wikia ACG on
Wikia.com (
http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
Andrew Garrett wrote:
Hi all,
After working through the code with Tim for a few hours this
afternoon, the TorBlock extension has been enabled on Wikimedia.
The TorBlock extension will override local IP blocks to provide a
consistent treatment of tor. Currently, this involves allowing only
logged-in users to edit, and requiring tor users to have 100 edits,
and a 90-day-old account, prior to being autoconfirmed.
Hopefully, this will provide a balance between allowing users to edit
through tor without the difficult process of granting per-wiki IP
block exemptions, and preventing pagemove vandals (such as the user
known as 'Grawp' on English) from using Tor for vandalism and so on.
I haven't yet implemented this, but I am interested in the prospect of
marking Tor users as such on either CheckUser, or (privacy policy
depending) on Recent Changes.
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