en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is taking up a large chunk of CheckUser and oversighter time and effort, which is apparently not too fun.
It looks like the current settings don't generally restrict various actions to a logged-in user when accessing through Tor; is there any objection to tightening this up to restrict edits, account creations, etc via Tor except when the account is explicitly excepted?
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is taking up a large chunk of CheckUser and oversighter time and effort, which is apparently not too fun.
It looks like the current settings don't generally restrict various actions to a logged-in user when accessing through Tor; is there any objection to tightening this up to restrict edits, account creations, etc via Tor except when the account is explicitly excepted?
If this is what's necessary, I guess we should go ahead. It's a bit of a shame, though.
2009/4/3 Andrew Garrett agarrett@wikimedia.org:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is taking up a large chunk of CheckUser and oversighter time and effort, which is apparently not too fun.
If this is what's necessary, I guess we should go ahead. It's a bit of a shame, though.
Yep. Tor is marvellous in theory, but in practice on en:wp it's a firehose of sewage, per John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
- d.
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:16 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/3 Andrew Garrett agarrett@wikimedia.org:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org
wrote:
en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is taking up a large chunk of CheckUser and oversighter time and effort, which is apparently not too fun.
If this is what's necessary, I guess we should go ahead. It's a bit of a shame, though.
Yep. Tor is marvellous in theory, but in practice on en:wp it's a firehose of sewage, per John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
- d.
I agree.
Let me see, is the main thrill of creating abusive usernames being that people will see them in recentchanges? Well if so consider https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18364 "array of boring event types to exclude from recentchanges".
P.S., I tried to add the above to http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/planning-to-tighten-torblock-restricti... but it seems that is just a blackhole, and the way to reply is via this mailing list.
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