Wikipedia & Tor & ... moderators?
Christopher W.
kyfho23 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 13:40:22 UTC 2005
>On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 08:18:11AM -0400, Christopher W. wrote:
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>>A suggestion on this: I just remembered the "hidden" servers....there
>>was one listed on Privoxy's page, I believe, that can only be accessed
>>by someone using a tor/Privoxy combination. Perhaps our possible Chinese
>>dissident could post her/his edits and additions on such a server, have
>>them reviewed by someone at Wikipedia, and if they were non-vandalizing
>>type posts, they could then be added to the Wikipedia page.
>> I realize that this violates Wikipedia's open-source, anyone can
>>edit philosophy to an extent, as someone would have to read and review
>>these entries. It would also put additional burdens on Wikipedia's
>>staff. But it would allow both the free flow of information and the
>>protection of privacy.
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>Actually, anyone could provide this service right now. It doesn't
>have to place a burden on Wikipedia in any way. All you need to do is
>widely publicize some place where content can be dropped off
>anonymously (a mailing list, a wiki, an ftp server), and volunteer to
>post it to Wikipedia as long as it's not obviously spam.
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um....my Chinese is kinda non-existent :-)
but I'll continue to ponder the problem. this IS important to me
ctw
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