[WikiEN-l] How do I edit a page from inside China?

[geni]

On 10/25/05, Christopher Maloney <voldrani at gmail.com> wrote:
> As most of you probably know, China has recently blocked (again)
> access to Wikipedia.  I've gotten around their Great Firewall by
> installing tor, but now, I find that my edit access to pages is
> blocked, because I appear to be coming from an open proxy.
>
> I don't understand why my edit access is blocked, even though I'm
> logged in as a valid user (Klortho).  I'm sure there's a good reason,
> but I don't understand it.  Anyway, is there any way around this?  I
> certainly hope so, because it seems ironic to me that Wikipedia, in
> effect, puts up an additional barrier to Chinese people wanting to
> express themselves (in addition to the censorship by the government,
> that is).


Because we get so much vandalism through Tor proxies that it isn't
worth unblocking them. When we block ips it prevents anyone from
useing them even if they have an account.


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geni