Thank you all, I expected such an explanation, it matches my understanding who MediaWiki currently works. I think, it is worth to start a formal bugzilla about that topic, so that it can be better tracked and commented.
Am 30.12.2013 23:10, schrieb Tyler Romeo: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Gries <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Can you explain this briefly, or send me a pointer ? >> This single info can be a help for him and others. >> (Honestly, I do not know, what a "trusted" account/user is.) >> I am on #mediawiki now >> > There is a special permission that allows specific accounts to not be > affected by IP blocks. It is granted by application on a case-by-case > basis. You can find more information here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption. I am not sure > whether similar processes exist on other wikis. > > As for the original topic, this has been thoroughly discussed before, and > every time I forget what the result of the discussion is. I know for sure > that since MediaWiki is fundamentally centered around knowing users' IP > addresses in order to stop sockpuppets, simply allowing Tor users to edit > will not happen. We need a solution that allows us to know a Tor user's IP > address without actually known their IP address. If that sounds like a > difficult problem, it's because it is. One suggestion was to use a type of > token authentication, where we use RSA blinding in order to give anonymous > exemption tokens. Another suggestion was to simply abandon IP blocks, since > users can easily enough change their IP addresses anyway. > > *-- * > *Tyler Romeo* > Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 > Major in Computer Science > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > --- > Diese E-Mail ist frei von Viren und Malware, denn der avast! Antivirus Schutz > ist aktiv. > http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
