In practice, soft-blocking proxies is the same as not blocking them at all. On the CheckUser list there is considerable opposition to what appears to be a unilateral over-riding of both local and meta policy, creating a new policy that might work for a little edited wiki but would not be appropriate at all on wiki-en. I encourage the developers to ensure that this change has wide acceptance at the local level and support from the Foundation before implementing.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:03 PM, DanTMan dan_the_man@telus.net wrote:
^_^ Nice, a way to block tor. Sounds like a ToInstall on my own servers. There's absolutely no valid reason for anyone to use Tor to access my sites.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com) --It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com) --Games-G.P.S. (http://ggps.org) -And Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
Andrew Garrett wrote:
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.
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