[Wikipedia-l] Multilingual error messages - need proof-reading

[Tim Starling]

J.L.W.S. The Special One wrote:
> Ted, no, they can't edit Wikipedia through TOR. Wikipedia does not
> allow editing through TOR and other open proxies. That's why Baidu
> Baike is flourishing.

Baidu Baike is flourishing because you don't need Tor to edit it. And 
because it shows up in Baidu, the most popular search engine in China.

There are no IP addresses currently blocked on the Chinese Wikipedia 
with "Tor" in the reason field (as opposed to 887 on the English 
Wikipedia). A spot check of 6 Tor exit nodes showed that none of them 
were blocked on zh. Open proxies may be blocked occasionally on the 
Chinese Wikipedia due to vandalism, but they certainly don't have a 
policy of blanket blocks.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to work out why a 
heavily-promoted, searchable, locally-run site with equivalent content 
is more popular than a foreign one that requires secret and probably 
illegal methods to access it.

-- Tim Starling