Prior to TOR being enabled we need to be able to flag both logged in and logged out edits made via TOR.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 1, 2014 11:40 AM, "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" <bjor...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Oct 1, 2014 10:55 AM, "Risker" <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > This is something that has to be discussed *on the projects > themselves*, > > > > not on mailing lists that have (comparatively) very low participation > by > > > > active editors. > > > > > > Unless people want to trial on mw.org (assuming there is dev buy in, > not > > > sure we are there yet) > > > > > > > Does mw.org receive the level of vandalism and other unhelpful edits > (where > > people would like to use Tor to avoid IP blocking in making those edits) > > that it would make for a useful test? > > If we are testing something potentially very disruptive, no harm starting > small. At the very least it would show if we could enable tor on mw.org. > The results could help decide if further testing on more "real" wikis is > justified. > > > > > > > There also needs to be a good answer to the "attribution problem" > that > > > has > > > > long been identified as a secondary concern related to Tor and other > > > proxy > > > > systems. The absence of a good answer to this issue may be > sufficient in > > > > itself to derail any proposed trial. > > > > > > Which problem is that? > > > > > > > If I understand it correctly, right now we attribute edits made without > an > > account to the IP address. Allowing edits via Tor should probably not be > > attributing such edits to the exit node's IP. > > > > This quite frankly seems like a contrived problem. A random (normal) ip > address hardly associates an edit to a person unless you steal an isps > records. Wait a year and it would probably be impossible to figure out who > owned some random dynamic ip address no matter how hard you tried. I dont > think attributing edits to an exit node introduces any new attribution > issues that are not already present. > > --bawolff > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
