-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Thanks for joining the list and starting the conversation. Are there > data sets or statistics which quantify tor usage at wikimedia? It might > help to frame the discussion if we know the scale of the tor usage or > the problem we're trying to address.
Sure, its a problem I care a lot about. As far as a I know there are not usage statistics about Tor usage at Wikimedia. I really wish there were. I've brought up the idea of a limited trial period where Tor is unblocked for a short time (say a few weeks to a month) in order to collect such data. I brought up the idea in the technical mailing list, which is the wrong venue, just to gather some feedback on it. Once I have my proposal better formulated I may send it to the community at large. Sadly these trial period proposals have a rocky history at Wikimedia, and even if I can make a strong argument and lots of assurances that it will go away at the end of the trial, I may still not get approval. > How does wikimedia handle other proxy and VPN users for logins and > edits? Would these solutions work for tor users as well? I imagine the > vast majority of tor users are just simply trying to get around Internet > censorship of some kind; like that at a national level, public schools, > restrictive businesses, or free cafe wifi, etc. Currently they are all hard-blocked as well. They are handled the exact same way that Tor is currently. I'm hoping that any solution that can be applied to Tor can be applied to them as well. In very limitted circumstances IP Block Exemptions may be given to highly trusted editors who have no choice but to edit where they are censored. For example an IP Block Exemption might be given to an editor of two years who begins attending a new University where Wikipedia is blocked for some reason. IP Block Exemptions are also automatically granted to any administrator. The reason I've been told, why IPBEs are so difficult to acquire, is past problems with abuse of them. Two things not quite related to your question, but related to the thread as a whole. I've reached out to Lane Rasberry to see if he'd be willing to help out with this again, and I'll be spending some time to read over the text that Lane had found and posted back in February. It looks like this has also been discussed on Meta (Wikimedia's wiki for discussing Wikimedia wikis) several times. Thank you, Derric Atzrott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFULVBLRHoDdZBwKDgRAmKSAJ9Ng/mYep6d2f0+k/bGPXW45qb8igCfTH0q rvBc9YPhUCgU5ZrTryDXMqc= =zfCA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
