Simetrical wrote:
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 2:16 PM, David Gerard wrote:
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?
I would imagine that detecting Tor is easier than detecting anonymous
proxies in general, although I haven't looked at the extension.
That's exactly the point. Tor outgoing servers go in[1] and out. The
client is always the same (=no work for its abusers) but servers vary.
Tor provides a list of ips at an instant able to reach your site. That's
which these extension uses.
It can also softblock or change the autoconfirmation status of people
with these ips... apart of hardblocking them.
Let each wiki choose its configuration, but don't leave it "entirely
off" as David Gerard proposes and then run sysop bots to mass block
their ips!
As for doing it for any open proxy, if you know how to do it, please
share it. I think it was proposed a long time ago to automatically scan
for open proxys. Don't know it if was really done, but it's certainly
impossible to do now.
enwikipedists are too blockist...
1-Bad, people will be able to bypass the blocks.
2-Also bad, innocents will be blocked.