Re: Wikipedia proposal

[Christian Siefkes <siefkes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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cyphrpunk wrote:
> 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.

The same seems to have happend to Adam Langley's proposed patch
<http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3570>.

However, there is hope. At Wikipedia, there is now a proposal for a much
simpler solution which I suppose to be more in accord with Wikipedia's needs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy_proposal .

Things at Wikipedia are moving slow when it comes to policy, but I still hope
they'll reach some consensus which could then be implemented.

Bye
	Christian

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