Tor and Wikipedia: Difference between revisions
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* There are notes in the log that suggest that some IP addresses are "confirmed Tor Nodes" (e.g., ???) that are blocked through MediaWiki. Why are these not caught? Are they are in CollectTor? | * There are notes in the log that suggest that some IP addresses are "confirmed Tor Nodes" (e.g., ???) that are blocked through MediaWiki. Why are these not caught? Are they are in CollectTor? | ||
* Why does the distribution of edits edits over the time periods that IPs are marked as exit nodes in our dataset not bunch up near the beginning of the period when the IP is a new Tor node and the IP seems less likely to be blocked? Why are there Tor exit nodes that seem to have been listed in CollectTor for long periods of time without being blocked by Wikipedia? | |||
Revision as of 20:55, 20 March 2018
Data Sources
We're pulling data from CollectTor.
How is Tor blocked on Wikipedia
Extension:TorBlock
There is a MediaWiki plugin called Extension:TorBlock. Source code is in a Phabricator repository.
What we can tell about how it works:
- during a period from XXXX to XXXX it read from the Tor Project bulk list service (link?)
- after XXXX, it pulls from the newerer "Onionoo" service
- pulls perioditically, typically from a cronjob
Blocked through MediaWiki
- Blocks are recorded in Special:Log (e.g., ENWP).
- Included in the XML file ???
Structure of XML file
Open questions
- There are notes in the log that suggest that some IP addresses are "confirmed Tor Nodes" (e.g., ???) that are blocked through MediaWiki. Why are these not caught? Are they are in CollectTor?
- Why does the distribution of edits edits over the time periods that IPs are marked as exit nodes in our dataset not bunch up near the beginning of the period when the IP is a new Tor node and the IP seems less likely to be blocked? Why are there Tor exit nodes that seem to have been listed in CollectTor for long periods of time without being blocked by Wikipedia?
