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

[Anthony DiPierro]

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).

 Keep trying. I started using Tor after all the talk of admins being able to
see my IP address, and I've found that only about half the exit nodes are
blocked. You can set up your Tor config file to exclude those exit nodes
that are blocked, as you find them.
 There was some talk at some point about giving admins the power to block
and unblock all Tor exit nodes simultaneously (blocking them for 30 minutes
at a time). I'm not sure if this is in the implementation stages or not, but
it'd be a good solution.
 Anthony