Hi,
Besides being a relay operator, I'm a sysop on the French Wikipedia.
On all the Wikimedia projects, we have several blocking options. Tor relays are concerned by two of them: * IPs of the exit nodes are automatically blocked based on the public list, see the 'TorBlock' Mediawiki Extension [1]. * When sysops found that vandalisms are coming from IPs bellowing to a hosting company (that are not likely to be legitimate connexions), it very often means that there are some open proxys so we manually "soft-block" (or block when needed) the complete IP range, see [2]. As a side effect, relays are often located on this kind of IP ranges, that's why guard and middle nodes are also often blocked.
"Soft-blocks" can be simply bypassed using an registered account, while to bypass a full block (to edit while using tor for example) it is needed to ask for an "IP block exempt flag", see [3] and [4].
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[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/No_open_proxies [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_block_exempt [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global_permissions#Requests_for_global_IP_block_exemption
5 janvier 2018 14:12 "Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen" traxplayer@gmail.com a écrit:
On 5 January 2018 at 10:05, Andreas Krey a.krey@gmx.de wrote:
On Tue, 02 Jan 2018 15:13:16 +0000, Alison Macrina wrote:
Hi friends,
I'd like to collect some anecdata about this issue regarding Wikipedia blocking edits from Tor non-exit relays: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24758
And they are blocking digitalocean /16 block
Your current IP address is 45.55.xxx.yyy, and the blocked range is 45.55.0.0/16. Please include all above details in any queries you make. You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia. You are still able to view pages, but you are not currently able to edit, move, or create them. Editing from 45.55.0.0/16 has been blocked (disabled) by Materialscientist for the following reason(s): The IP address that you are currently using has been blocked because it is believed to be a web host provider. To prevent abuse, web hosts may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. You will not be able to edit Wikipedia using a web host provider. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays