Re: Wikipedia proposal

[cyphrpunk <cyphrpunk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/7/05, Jason Holt <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just posted this to wikitech-l:
>
> * Alice can now turn on tor and present her token to wp, without revealing
> her actual IP address.  This token takes the place of the IP address
> record currently stored along with article edits, and can be blacklisted
> just the same way that IPs are banned.

You haven't defined what "wp" means at this point. At first I thought
it meant "web proxy" but actually in this context it is probably
wikipedia. Presumably the readers on wikipedia-l won't suffer this
confusion.

There doesn't seem to have been any response so far to your
suggestion. The problems of Tor users are outside the interests of
mainstream wikipedia developers. This is part of why I prefer a system
such as I suggested earlier, a web proxy which only lets complaint
free nyms go through. This would not require any changes at all to
wikipedia (at the expense of requiring a nym administrator to handle
complaints).

Even if you manage to change the wikipedia code to use a client cert
identifier in place of remote IP under some circumstances, you will
still have to convince them to incorporate your patches. It's not
clear that adding this support will be a high enough priority for them
that they will be willing to do so, as evidenced by their lack of
interest in your idea.

CP