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

[Tim Starling]

Christopher Maloney 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).

I just created [[Wikipedia:Advice to Tor users in China]] to answer this
question:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_to_Tor_users_in_China

-- Tim Starling