Re: Wikipedia & Tor

[Jimmy Wales <jwales@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Syverson wrote:
> (1) Tor is set up and managed so Wikipedia can easily recognize
>     stuff coming through Tor.
> 
> (2) Wikipedia doesn't have a lot of human or other resources available
>     to check these posts for what it considers abuse. (Relates to Nick's
>     points.)

We actually do have a huge amount of human resources, this is our great
strength.  But our value judgment to date (not made by me directly, by
the way, but by admins getting their hands dirty in the day to day work)
is that Tor servers just aren't worth it.

> I think this is simple, both conceptually and to implement;
> it might work;  and it's an improvement over the status quo.

Putting Tor users into a "soft block" mode is a reasonable thing to do,
but I'll have to think about how we might want to do it.

--Jimbo