A few questions on this:
- So, this would result in the creation of a new account, correct? If so, most of the security is lost by the enwiki policy of requiring linking to one's other accounts, and if the user edited in the same topic area as their other account, they're likely to be blocked for socking. (This is a social limitation on the idea, not a technical one.) - Why would we permit more than one account? - It's not usually experienced editors who seem to have an issue on English projects; most of the huffing and puffing about Tor seems to come from people who are not currently registered/experienced editors, so the primary "market" is a group of people who wouldn't meet the proposed criteria. - On reading this over carefully, it sounds as though you're proposing what is essentially a highly technical IPBE process in which there is even less control than the project has now, particularly in the ability to address socking and POV/COI editing. Am I missing something? Risker/Anne On 10 March 2015 at 13:16, Giuseppe Lavagetto <glavage...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I like the idea in general, in particular the fact that only > "established" editors can ask for the tokens. What I don't get is why > this proxy should be run by someone that is not the WMF, given - I > guess - it would be exposed as a TOR hidden service, which will mask > effectively the user IP from us, and will secure his communication > from snooping by exit node managers, and so on. > > I guess the righteously traffic on such a proxy would be so low (as > getting a token is /not/ going to be automated/immediate even for > logged in users) that it could work without using up a lot of > resources. > > Cheers, > > Giuseppe > > _______________________________________________ > 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
