On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in > the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is > taking up a large chunk of CheckUser and oversighter time and effort, > which is apparently not too fun. > > It looks like the current settings don't generally restrict various > actions to a logged-in user when accessing through Tor; is there any > objection to tightening this up to restrict edits, account creations, > etc via Tor except when the account is explicitly excepted?
If this is what's necessary, I guess we should go ahead. It's a bit of a shame, though. -- Andrew Garrett _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
