[WikiEN-l] Tor horror stories

Tue Sep 27 14:53:44 UTC 2005

On 9/27/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> I'm talking to some Tor people, trying to explain to them why Tor
> servers are so often blocked from editing wikipedia.  I'd like to
> collect some information (horror stories) about it...

Jimbo, one Tor horror story was [[User:Enviroknot]], who also edited
as [[User:KaintheScion]] and [[User:ElKabong]], He used Tor to post
anonymous Islamophobic abuse of Muslim editors, and managed to turn
Islam-related talk pages into toxic waste dumps for weeks before the
arbcom banned him, and before we had blocked all the open proxies we
knew he was using. At least in part because of him, one Muslim editor
started responding in kind, and is now up before the arbcom for it, so
the fallout isn't over yet.

Sarah