<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/1/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Geoffrey Goodell</b> <<a href="mailto:goodell@eecs.harvard.edu">goodell@eecs.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">It seems likely that this solution has been discussed before, but my<br>understanding is that Wikipedia works by having a team of volunteers
<br>periodically scour the submitted pages for signs of vandalism. Why<br>should they do this ex-post? Is there some critical need for edits to<br>Wikipedia pages to be published as quickly as possible, even if this<br>
means that there is potential abuse? I question the need for publishing<br>first, asking questions later.</blockquote>
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<div>It's historical more than anything. Publishing first and asking questions later was what made Wikipedia so successful. Nowadays that might be obsolete, but there would be a lot of backlash from some of the regulars to take it away.
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Therefore, I propose screening edits from Tor nodes. Aside from the<br>delay, this method carries no additional cost, since your editors are
<br>accustomed to scouring articles anyway. As long as vandalized pages are<br>not published successfully, the value of this method for trolling the<br>world will be neutralized. Even if the world magically turns into a
<br>utopia of location-independent sources, you will have a means of dealing<br>with abuse quickly. and provided that your editors are sufficiently<br>effective, you will never publish a vandalized page.<br><br>Geoff</blockquote>
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<div>I think it'd just be enough to identify edits by anonymous Tor users under a single account. There's no advantage to having the specific IP, and it'd be easier to police edits if all edits made anonymously through Tor were lumped under a single account. It'd also increase the anonymity slightly, though that's just a side effect.
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<div>Sure, you could screen the edits too, but that'd be a bit of extra work on the coding side, would bother a number of users, and wouldn't have much benefit. I guess it'd lessen the incentive to vandalize, but not very much.
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<div>Anthony<br> </div></div>