On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 19:05 -0600, Open Phugu wrote:
I have created an account, on en.wikipedia.org, from a non-blocked IP. However, I am now using Tor, and almost all the exit nodes are blocked.
It may interest you to know that malicious users love using tor, since it makes tracing them much more difficult. For instance, our latest admin sockpuppeteer used it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators% 27_noticeboard#Runcorn_and_sockpuppets_banned), as did the person or persons who cracked a few admin accounts some weeks ago. Taking this into account, I would argue that the benefits to the project from blocking tor far outweigh the negatives.
Blaming Wikipedia for denying access to Chinese users strikes me as rather fallacious, since we're not the ones doing the blocking. A more appropriate target for criticism would be the Chinese government.