On 6/4/08, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Garrett andrew@epstone.net Date: 2008/6/4 Subject: [Wikitech-l] TorBlock extension enabled To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi all,
After working through the code with Tim for a few hours this afternoon, the TorBlock extension has been enabled on Wikimedia.
The TorBlock extension will override local IP blocks to provide a consistent treatment of tor. Currently, this involves allowing only logged-in users to edit, and requiring tor users to have 100 edits, and a 90-day-old account, prior to being autoconfirmed.
Hopefully, this will provide a balance between allowing users to edit through tor without the difficult process of granting per-wiki IP block exemptions, and preventing pagemove vandals (such as the user known as 'Grawp' on English) from using Tor for vandalism and so on.
I haven't yet implemented this, but I am interested in the prospect of marking Tor users as such on either CheckUser, or (privacy policy depending) on Recent Changes.
-- Andrew Garrett
This is certainly interesting, but I cannot seem to find any documentation on how exactly this would 'work'. Is it opt-in? Do admins have to do something?
For example, today I re-enabled Tor and I tried creating a redirect. I was blocked with the normal Tor block pages regardless of whether I was going through secure.wikimedia.org or en; my account has been around for hundreds of days, has like 30k edits, rollback & move privileges and so on, so if I am understanding this right, I should've been able to create the page just fine. But I couldn't, so I didn't.
-- gwern