On 09/30/2014 09:08 AM, Derric Atzrott wrote: > "[H]ow can we quantify the loss to Wikipedia, and to society at large, from > turning away anonymous contributors? Wikipedians say 'we have to blacklist all > these IP addresses because of trolls' and 'Wikipedia is rotting because nobody > wants to edit it anymore' in the same breath, and we believe these points > are related."
I've been doing adminwork on enwiki since 2007 and I can tell give you two anecdotal data points: (a) Previously unknown TOR endpoints get found out because they invariably are the source of vandalism and/or spam. (b) I have never seen a good edit from a TOR endpoint. Ever. A third one I can add since I have held checkuser (2009): (c) I have never seen accounts created via TOR or that edited through TOR that weren't demonstrably block evasion, vandalism or (most often) spamming. None of this is TOR-specific, the same observations apply to open proxies in general, and the almost totality of hosted servers. Long blocks of open proxies or co-lo ranges that time out after *years* being blocked invariably start spewing spam and vandalism, often the very day the block expired. -- Marc _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
