The problem with open proxies is that anyone can use them; lists of them are published. They are blocked routinely due mainly to spambots which create many accounts and insert nonsense, usually with links to dubious commercial sources.
I recommend you create an anonymous account and edit in that way. Fred > folks hi, > > i am a long-time wikipedia user and long-time and low-volume editor, > and a significant contributor to the strategic roadmap of wikipedia > which occurred a few years ago. i returned to edit a page and found > that the IP address of the HTTP proxy that i use had been blocked. i > was reminded of an extreme intimidation incident which clearly > violated the spirit of trusting people to contribute to wikipedia, so > thought it best to alert you of this. > > the editing last year was carried out - accidentally - anonymously and > using my usual style of making several incremental edits in rapid > succession so as not to lose track of the information being added. i > was unpleasantly surprised to find that in the middle of the editing > the *entire* set of edits had been reverted. i had encountered the > user who carried out the blanket reversion before (when logged in) and > he's what one might call a "wiki nazi": very experienced at "the > rules", and uses them to bullying effect rather than works *with* a > less-experienced contributor, usually by doing total-revert in a > highly disruptive manner. > > things escalated and a number of idiots piled in, citing the anonymity > as a means to "attack" wikipedia, whereas in fact it was purely > accidental, but the bullying and the lack of trust shown was the > reason why i chose to *remain* anonymous. > > the article in question i refuse to name publicly because it will > identify me instantly to the bullies from whom i still wish to remain > anonymous. > > it was a corner-case technical article full of technically inaccurate > technically unsubstantiated and speculative "wishful thinking" on the > part of former editors. i.e. former editors *wish* that the > technology would be successful, but are unfortunately dreadfully > misinformed on basic maths and physics. the problem is: the lack of > success of anyone to create a commercially successful version of this > technology in over 100 years makes it very difficult to provide any > kind of "wikipedia-acceptable" citations as to why there are no > commercially successful versions of this technology. > > the article therefore continues to mis-inform people rather badly. a > quick check shows that the page has since been updated, but the core > concerns remain as the page is completely lacking basic math and > physics references, as well as having since been marked as requiring > citations. > > so there are several things that need to be resolved - bear in mind > that i am *not* prepared to help publicly resolve this unless the > people who carried out the intimidation are taken to task first: > > 1) the people who carried out the intimidation and accusations need to > be reminded of the spirit of wikipedia to *trust* contributors rather > than automatically assume that they have malicious intent > > 2) the IP address of my HTTP proxy is to be removed. it's utterly > pointless to block IP addresses based on an *individual's* assessment, > when there are things such as "Tor" and other truly anonymous proxies. > anyone wishing to truly vandalise wikipedia could do so with extreme > prejudice in an automated fashion, and they would certainly not use an > HTTP proxy where a simple reverse-DNS lookup would quickly identify > them. > > once these things have been done then i am prepared to assist further > in resolving the subtly misleading parts of the article. i am happy > to provide the details *privately* to more senior individuals within > the wikipedia foundation such that an investigation can be made. > > my efforts to improve wikipedia's accuracy are genuine and sincere, > but as a very low-traffic part-time editor of highly-technical > corner-case articles i simply don't have time to go learning all the > "rules": i'm just not interested, to be absolutely frank. i'm happy > to work with people who are sincere and accommodating who truly > welcome technical input. > > l. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
