Hi, Besides being a relay operator, I'm a sysop on the French Wikipedia.
On all the Wikimedia projects, we have several blocking options. Tor relays are concerned by two of them: * IPs of the exit nodes are automatically blocked based on the public list, see the 'TorBlock' Mediawiki Extension [1]. * When sysops found that vandalisms are coming from IPs bellowing to a hosting company (that are not likely to be legitimate connexions), it very often means that there are some open proxys so we manually "soft-block" (or block when needed) the complete IP range, see [2]. As a side effect, relays are often located on this kind of IP ranges, that's why guard and middle nodes are also often blocked. "Soft-blocks" can be simply bypassed using an registered account, while to bypass a full block (to edit while using tor for example) it is needed to ask for an "IP block exempt flag", see [3] and [4]. — 0x010C [1] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock> [2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/No_open_proxies> [3] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_block_exempt> [4] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global_permissions#Requests_for_global_IP_block_exemption> 5 janvier 2018 14:12 "Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen" <[email protected]> a écrit: > On 5 January 2018 at 10:05, Andreas Krey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 02 Jan 2018 15:13:16 +0000, Alison Macrina wrote: >>> Hi friends, >>> >>> I'd like to collect some anecdata about this issue regarding Wikipedia >>> blocking edits from Tor non-exit relays: >>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24758 > > And they are blocking digitalocean /16 block > > Your > current IP address is 45.55.xxx.yyy, and the blocked range is > 45.55.0.0/16. Please include all above details in any queries you make. > You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia. > You are still able to view pages, but you are not currently able to > edit, move, or create them. > Editing from 45.55.0.0/16 has been blocked (disabled) by > Materialscientist for the following > reason(s): > The IP address that you are currently using has been blocked because it is > believed to be a web host provider. To prevent abuse, web hosts may be > blocked from editing Wikipedia. > You will not be able to edit Wikipedia using a web host provider. > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
