[Foundation-l] TOR Nodes

[Nathan]

(Was Ipblock exempt proposal for en wiki)

This seems like something that, while it affects primarily en.wiki,
should be run by the Foundation because of the potentially serious PR
consequences (Wikipedia makes it impossible to edit from China etc.).

If a solution of generally blocking Tor exit nodes (prior to abuse
from that specific node) is adopted it looks like the technical
solution provided by RonaldB is by far the best option. It offers
constant updating, operation by an experienced expert and quick
(relatively) unblocks of former Tor exit nodes.

Others have raised a good point, though: The trade off is between
vandalism by TOR users and editing from China / other nations with
selecting blocking of Wikipedia.

In any event, it looks like the link provided by Mercury has dissolved
into indecision and it seems unlikely much will come from it (except
sniping between Mercury and Raul...).

Nathan


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From: NavouWiki <navouwiki at gmail.com>
Date: Jan 14, 2008 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Ipblock exempt proposal for en wiki
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On a ip hardblock, can't do anything but read.  Ip exempt would permit a
bypass per username.

Merc

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Can you login from a TOR node? Or is traffic from TOR banned
completely? If you can login, I don't see the problem. Frankly, I
think logging in to make a substantial edit isn't a bad idea. The old
argument is that a great deal (perhaps the majority) of content has
come from IPs. True probably, but only because they didn't have to log
in!

On Jan 14, 2008 7:13 PM, Majorly <axel9891 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 15/01/2008, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This mentality must change before any process can move forward.
> >
> > Chad
> >
>
> Oh indeed.
>
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