On 8/13/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/08/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
That checkusers have the ability to spy on Wikipedians and checkuser policy forbids other checkusers from revealing the fact that they did so is a major problem with Wikipedia.
Has it stopped you editing productively?
It absolutely has cut down my productive editing drastically. Around the time checkuser came out I started editing solely using TOR, so as not to reveal my IP address. I even made a script which searches all the tor exit nodes to find one that isn't blocked by Wikipedia. But nowadays I rarely bother with this, and most of the tor exit nodes are now blocked. I set up a TCP tunnel through my friends house which is where I make my edits while at home. My edits are way down from the pre-checkuser days, and this is due largely to the introduction of the checkuser tool and the lack of good policies against abusing it.