Hi, buddies. The Chinese Wikimedia users need some technical help from the developers at the Foundation. As everyone here believes, the government of P.R. China has blocked access to all Wikimedia sites using its "Great Firewall"; Wikimedia contributors and users in Mainland China have to use proxies to visit Wikimedia sites. However, most of these proxies are unstable, so CNBlog.org (a famous and prominent advocacy of blogosphere in China operated by Social Brian Foundation, which hosted the First Chinese Blogger Conference last year) has setup a stable proxy for Chinese users. With this service, Mainland Chinese users can access Chinese Wikipedia using http://wikipedia.cnblog.org, and Chinese Wikinews using http://wikinews.cnblog.org. There are over 16,000 visits and over 110,000 page requests per day this month. CNBlog.org has been very helpful to Chinese users, and it is planning to expand its proxy service to cover all Chinese Wikimedia projects, which is really great news. Unfortunately, Chinese Wikimedia administrators are frowned upon an issue that came up recently: lots of vandalism is done using the CNBlog proxy. Currently, the IP of the CNBlog proxy is displayed and logged in edit history on Wikimedia. If an administrator blocks this IP (CNBlog proxy), all Mainland Chinese users who are using CNBlog proxy, either logged-in or not, will be blocked as well and not be able to contribute. Some Chinese Wikipedians discussed this issue with CNBlog.org, and we believe that a technical solution should be feasible. We also discussed some technical details, and I will send another e-mail to wikitech-l regarding the details. Basically, we would like to have users' real IP (IP used to access CNBlog proxy) displayed and logged at Wikimedia. We send this e-mail to here on behalf of many Chinese users. We hope to have kind attention and help from the Foundation. Thank you very much. [[User:Shizhao]] [[User:R.O.C]] [[User:Yongxinge]] [[User:Mountain]]