Wikipedia & Tor

[Christian Siefkes]

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Hi,

[trying again -- I sent this message yesterday but it didn't make it to the
list, probably because I used the wrong mail adress. Hoping I got it right
this time...]

Roger Dingledine wrote:
> Jimmy and I talked about Tor-and-Wikipedia many months ago, and the
> conclusion was that they (mediawiki) would be willing to try a variety of
> technological solutions to see if they work (i.e. cut down on vandalism
> and aren't too much of a burden to run). My favorite is to simply have
> certain address classes where the block expires after 15 minutes or
> so. Brandon Wiley proposed a similar idea but where the block timeout is
> exponentially longer for repeated abuse, so services that are frequently
> blocked will stay blocked longer. This is great. But somebody needs to
> actually code it.

It _has_ been coded. Adam Langley has prepared a patch for auto-unblocking,
but so far we haven't managed to get it incorporated into the MediaWiki
software. The patch is available at
http://www.imperialviolet.org/binary/mediawiki-1.4.4-tor-block.patch . It is
almost but not completely finished (some FIXMEs in the code due to
insufficient MediaWiki inside knowledge) and by now it's likely to be slightly
stale, but basically it should realize the proposed solution.

Best regards
	Christian

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