Simetrical wrote:
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 2:16 PM, David Gerard wrote:
Indeed. This extension appears to be for the benefit of TOR and no-one else. Why not all open proxies? (Because that would not be of benefit to the projects.) Why TOR? Ideological reasons to be pro-TOR? How does specifically enabling TOR fit the Wikimedia Foundation's mission?
I would imagine that detecting Tor is easier than detecting anonymous proxies in general, although I haven't looked at the extension.
That's exactly the point. Tor outgoing servers go in[1] and out. The client is always the same (=no work for its abusers) but servers vary. Tor provides a list of ips at an instant able to reach your site. That's which these extension uses. It can also softblock or change the autoconfirmation status of people with these ips... apart of hardblocking them. Let each wiki choose its configuration, but don't leave it "entirely off" as David Gerard proposes and then run sysop bots to mass block their ips!
As for doing it for any open proxy, if you know how to do it, please share it. I think it was proposed a long time ago to automatically scan for open proxys. Don't know it if was really done, but it's certainly impossible to do now.
enwikipedists are too blockist...
1-Bad, people will be able to bypass the blocks. 2-Also bad, innocents will be blocked.