[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] TorBlock extension enabled

[Jonas Rand]

> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:12:19 -0400
> From: "Casey Brown" <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] TorBlock extension enabled
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Jonas Rand <joeyyuan at cox.net> wrote:
>> I think this is a good idea, as far as soft-blocking or. However, the
>> "autoconfirmed, 100 edits, 90 days" is not, because the users with Tor
>> should be allowed to use it, if it protects them from privacy. It should 
>> not
>> be softblocked until an editor is an "experienced editor", because it is 
>> an
>> assumption of bad faith for Wikipedia to assume that an editor does not 
>> have
>> good intentions because they aren't "prolific".
>>
>> I can understand if this is a cautionary measure, however just because an
>> editor hasn't made 100 edits and stayed there for 90 days, does not mean
>> they are vandals or sleeper accounts. This is a flaw in the proposal, and
>> should be fixed.
>>
>
> Of course, but this does not stop them from editing -- only from
> editing semi-protected pages or other things that require an
> autoconfirmed account[1].  Tor is too often abused (globally, on all
> Wikimedia sites), so I assume the longer autoconfirmed information is
> the price of having that level of privacy.
>

Well, I thought that softblocking was enabled for all registered accounts 
(not just autoconfirmed ones). Therefore, it shouldn't be the Tor rule that 
should change, but the softblocking rule altogether, so that all registered 
accounts are softblocked.
> Just a note, this isn't a proposal.  It is a notification or
> "heads-up" about an already installed[2], global (all of Wikimedia)
> extension.[3]
>
> [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights
> [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version
> [3]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock

Thank you.

Jonas