[WikiEN-l] Blocking of Tor exit nodes

[Stephen Bain]

On 6/2/07, Open Phugu <openphugu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1. Can the blocking mechanism be set up to disallow anonymous
> edits but allow edits from registered users?
> 2. Would blocking all the Tor exit nodes in the manner above cause
> an increase in vandalism?

The answer to both questions is yes.

> This policy of blocking edits from Tor exit nodes seems to contradict
> several policies on Wikipedia:

It's consistent with the Foundation level policy against anonymous or
open proxies:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/No_open_proxies

Tor does have an unusual place in that not all of the projects tend to
enforce the policy as strictly against Tor nodes as they would against
other services. On English Wikipedia the policy tends to be followed
strictly.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com