As I wrote last week: "As other information sources fall, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever.
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Wikipedia's Tor/proxy blocking policy is an unfortunate impediment to aspiring editors wanting to maintain personal security
The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia | Tor Project
According to a recently published research paper co-authored by researchers from Drexel, NYU, and the University of Washington, Tor users make high-quality contributions to Wikipedia. And, when they are blocked, as doctoral candidate Chau Tran, the lead author describes, "the collateral damage in the form of unrealized valuable contributions from anonymity seekers is invisible."
(blog.torproject.org)
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@adamsaidsomething it is. it is a very challenging predicament
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@molly0xfff It surprises me that that page doesn't talk about logging IPs through links, which is one of the more credible threats floated by Heritage in those slides. Yes, I know, SOFIXIT, but I know much more about losing anonymity than maintaining it; maybe someone else would like to add something on it though.
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@tamzin yeah, I had the same thought. maybe I'll SOFIXIT tomorrow
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Otherwise allowing Tor would open the door for trolls and makes it even easier for propagandists.
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@molly0xfff @adamsaidsomething Do they block ordinary garden-variety VPNs too? or is it _just Tor_? (I know how to go find out myself but first I'd have to go recover my wikipedia account; I haven't edited in years...) b/c there are VPNs that I trust way more than Tor...
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@molly0xfff Spicy take: more folks would become editors if they didn't have good reason to believe right wing activists and deletion warriors would show up and delete their work and be treated as legitimate rather than vandals.
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@symphonikus @molly0xfff @adamsaidsomething Just allow only logged in edits thru Tor not anonymous.
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Molly Whitereplied to Stone Bear :HeartGenderqueer: last edited by
@stonebear @adamsaidsomething VPNs are also widely blocked
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@dalias that's certainly one of the goals of projects like the Heritage Foundation's
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@dalias @symphonikus @adamsaidsomething just shifts the problem
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