2008/6/8 jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com:
As for me, I don't see any reason why TOR proxies should be afforded any special consideration; like all proxies, they should be hard banned, per policy, and developers shouldn't implement ways of over-turning the actions of wikis that quite properly do so. On the contrary, they should be implementing extensions that automatically block TOR exit nodes. And I don't see any particular reason why we should be adding layer upon layer of complexity to this scheme whose underlying premise is fatally flawed. I'm not sure why the IP block exemption wouldn't work for the incredibly small number of wiki-en editors who actually have a *legitimate* reasons to use TOR.
Indeed. This extension appears to be for the benefit of TOR and no-one else. Why not all open proxies? (Because that would not be of benefit to the projects.) Why TOR? Ideological reasons to be pro-TOR? How does specifically enabling TOR fit the Wikimedia Foundation's mission?
- d.