Remember to review the tutorial for tips on how to answer this question. They should not be benefits to you individually. These should be benefits to the Wikimedia projects or Wikimedia communities. What are your goals for this project? Your goals should describe the top two or three benefits that will come out of your project. The solution consists of building a proxy serving Wikipedia for reading and editing as an onion service as part of the Tor network. We’d like to understand why you chose this particular solution, and why you think it is worth pursuing. We recognize that there are many ways to solve a problem. This proposal touches on that only tangentially as its objective is not to argue for broadening the existing policies for editing over Tor.įor the problem you identified in the previous section, briefly describe your how you would like to address this problem. The main obstacle to that is the impossibility at the moment of finding ways to prevent abuse over Tor, in particular for sockpuppets. However, an onion service would increase their privacy in the sense that user would never leave the Tor network.ĭiscussions about Wikipedia and Tor have returned cyclically since 2006, in particular with respect to the theme of allowing users to be able to edit Wikipedia via Tor. Users that want to read Wikipedia while protecting their privacy can already use the Tor Browser Bundle to read Wikipedia. What problem are you trying to solve by doing this project? This problem should be small enough that you expect it to be completely or mostly resolved by the end of this project. Project idea What is the problem you're trying to solve? 2.2.3 What is the difference between an exit node and a onion/hidden service?.2.1.4.2 What about setting the service up and maintaining it?.2.1.3.2 What other issues are related to providing Wikipedia over an anonymous proxy?.2.1.3.1 Can this service be exploited by malicious editors (vandals, spammers, sockpuppeteers)?.2.1.2.2 How a Wikipedia onion service benefits our mission in general.2.1.2.1 How an onion service benefits Wikipedia readers.1.1 What is the problem you're trying to solve?.

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