Re: Wikipedia & Tor

[Ben Burch <benburch@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just a question or two, Jimbo...

Do you folks block all proxies?  Like anonymization.net and  
guardster.com?

If all proxies are to be blocked, how is somebody with sensitive  
whistleblower-type information to be able to post it?

As an example, 20 years ago I worked for a nuclear utility that was  
lying to the NRC about safety-related systems.  Had the web and  
Wikipedia existed then, and had I wanted to post information about  
this to a page about that nuclear utility, how could I have done this  
anonymously?  The consequences of not doing this anonymously would  
have been firing at a minimum and prosecution would have been a  
distinct possibility.  IMNSHO, there HAS to be a means for  
whistleblowers to achieve some safety if we want to encourage the  
practice, and, as a civilization, I believe we do want to encourage it.

How does Wikipedia deal with large groups with NAT firewalls?  The  
defacers of the page about me on Wikipedia were all from Ball State  
University, from a NAT address.  Assuming the users from a particular  
college were largely defacers (and I am not alleging that is the case  
here, I am just asking about policy) would that whole domain get  
blocked?