Thatcher131 Wikipedia wrote:
Gmaxwell correctly pointed out in an email to
checkuser-L that if Tor
exits are hardblocked, smart puppetmasters will use other proxies.
True, but we can block those proxies. We *can't* block Tor exits, at
least if the override behavior is in place. In fact, with the
override enabled, the new extension will actually *encourage*
sockpuppeteers to use Tor, because it will guarantee they will always
be able to edit as long as they have the patience to wait for their
socks to be autoconfirmed. They will no longer run the risk of
enrolling in a commercial anonymizing service only to discover that we
have blocked it.
Then it could be configured to perform a complete block for those wikis
which really want that (not as the default, although completely blocking
tor is tempting). It will still keep an updated Tor list, as opposed to
having half tor edits working or not, or running a bot as sysop each X
time to block exit nodes.
It might be a good idea to set a magic IP address, such as
255.255.255.tor whose blocks affected to any exit node in case of tor
vandalism.
Good work, Andrew. Nonetheless, i encourage you to rename $wgTorIPs.
It's counterintuitive, as $wgTorIPs aren't the Tor IPs but the server
ones! What about $wgTorExitsMediawikiIPs ?