2008/6/8 jayjg <jayjg99(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.