[Foundation-l] Problems on block ip user in Chinese Wikipedia

[Anthere]

mingli yuan wrote:
> 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]]


Hiya.

Agreed. We must do our best so that inland users really succeed to 
access the projects. I am not sure I understood the method you plan to 
use to ensure CNBlog proxy users will have access. Can you clarify ? I 
will read the wikitech as well...

Ant