On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Zack Weinberg zackw@cmu.edu wrote:
To satisfy Applebaum's request, there needs to be a mechanism whereby someone can edit even if *all of their communications with Wikipedia, including the initial contact* are coming over Tor or equivalent. Blinded, costly-to-create handles (minted by Wikipedia itself) are one possible way to achieve that; if there are concrete reasons why that will not work for Wikipedia, the people designing these schemes would like to know about them.
This should be possible, according to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NOP, which Nemo also posted. The user sends an email to the stewards (using tor to access email service of their choice). Account is created, and user can edit Wikimedia wikis. Or is there still a step that is missing?