Last modified: 2013-06-18 15:44:55 UTC
After discussion at http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/planning-to-tighten-torblock-restrictions/ and http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-April/042434.html , there's nearly unanimous agreement to change the configuration of the TorBlock extension to make it more strict. I believe what's needed is to set: $wgGroupPermissions['user']['torunblocked'] = true; This change should probably be made concurrently with bug 18337 ("Enable "IP block exemption" on all Wikimedia wikis").
Tossing a bunch of CCs on and assigning. :D
(In reply to comment #1) > Tossing a bunch of CCs on and assigning. :D Do we want to do this concurrently with bug 18337?
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Tossing a bunch of CCs on and assigning. :D > > Do we want to do this concurrently with bug 18337? > Yes, we do.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > Do we want to do this concurrently with bug 18337? > > > Yes, we do. Actually I was asking Brion :)
Please refine the configuration. Tor-blocked users can't edit any page at all (which includes their user talk page), so it is almost impossible to get yourself unblocked (other than through off-wiki methods) if you are within range of an exit node.
Ping Andrew -- what's the get-yourself-unblocked workflow look like? Do we need some on-wiki editing request or have we got someplace else we can clearly direct people to where their unblock request will get handled?
We can send people to unblock-en-l (a mailing listz). That seems like the most sensible thing to do for the moment.
(In reply to comment #7) > We can send people to unblock-en-l (a mailing listz). That seems like the most > sensible thing to do for the moment. > Even if unblock-en-l were properly functioning, how does that help the other >700 wikis?
Looking for suggestions to improve the "get yourself unblocked" workflow. Does anybody have any thoughts?
(Batch change) These are low-priority miniprojects that I can mop up at some point when I'm doing general code work as opposed to working on a specific projects.
[Batch change] Removing Dave McCabe from CC, who I somehow managed to add to the CC list of 12 bugs assigned to me.
(In reply to comment #9) > Looking for suggestions to improve the "get yourself unblocked" workflow. > > Does anybody have any thoughts? Making a request on the user's talk page is fairly standard - that could be permitted for tor nodes. OTOH, the only problems we've had so far with TorBlock is when it doesn't block well enough, or doesn't block at all. I think we should go ahead and fix this problem already.
Is there anything else to action here? It doesn't seem to be a shell bug... More policy, that is, even if something actually needs doing Help?
Please reopen if there's anything else to still action here
