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I'd be interested to know more about the nature of the actual vandalism and abuse that came from Tor exit nodes prior to Wikipedia implementing the ban. How lon

I'd be interested to know more about the nature of the actual vandalism and abuse that came from Tor exit nodes prior to Wikipedia implementing the ban. How long did it stay up before being reverted? How difficult was it to track, revert, etc. compared to non-Tor-based vandalism? And how effective a tool was IP-banning for non-Tor-based vandalism at the time? Plus anything else I haven't thought about regarding the severity of the vandalism during that time. Any Wiki admins have first-hand experience? Edit: clarifications

duskwuff 6y ago
Not an administrator, but an onlooker during that period. Before Wikipedia had any explicit policy re. Tor exit nodes, their IPs would typically be blocked anyway -- either under longstanding policy regarding open proxies, or as a result of spam/vandalism edits originating from the IP. Automatically blocking all Tor exit nodes wasn't a huge change in practice; it just meant that the process was automatic (so new exit nodes would be blocked more quickly, and old exit node IPs would be unblocked automatically), and that the block messages for users on those IPs became more informative.