On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Bawolff has it right, pretty much. For
legitimate users, an IPBE can be
handed out. We have very limited human resources on the projects themselves
to address the issuing of tokens and IPBEs now.
For me, this is largely a philosophical argument; yes, it would be in
keeping with the "everyone can edit" ethic to enable Tor editing. For a
very small number of WMF projects, it might attract a greater number of
editors; if the project itself wants to consider Tor editing appropriate,
it would be nice to find a way to exempt that project from the general
prohibition. On the other hand, for the vast majority of projects, it would
attract more problems and/or require excess attention from the limited
number of volunteers (ie, checkusers) who are qualified to determine if an
IPBE or "Tor token" is appropriate for a specific user. On some projects,
almost every single editor who has ever been found to use [not yet blocked]
Tor IPs was identified as such because of a legitimate concern about that
editor's behaviour.
I hope we don't (but rarely, perhaps) checkuser accounts that are behaving
properly, so don't think we'd necessarily find many of the well-behaving
tor users.
Of course, we find the bad behavior accounts.
Cheers,
Katie
Risker/Anne
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