Ben Burch wrote:

The biggest problem I see is that if moderation is commissive, rather than reactive, then if the original poster commits a crime (like violating the Official Secrets Act) then the moderator who approves the posting would likely be liable for the same crime.

Well, at least with respect to Wikipedia there are a few misconceptions I should clear up. First, something like that wouldn't be appropriate for Wikipedia on editorial grounds. ("No original research") -- we have specific intellectual standards that would generally preclude that sort of thing. Second, 'moderation' at wikipedia is reactive. That is, people vandalize, and then we clean it up.

The only solution I can think of that would allow Tor and Wiki to interoperate would be to have a Tor-Wikipedia Moderation Team who would actively look for Wikipedia vandalism originating from Tor exit nodes, and revert out vandal's postings promptly.

The support we would need from Wikipedia would be minor; Wiki would have to implement a Watch function for postings from Tor exit nodes that the Tor-Wikipedia moderation team would get email notifications on. There already are exit node listings that would allow Wikipedia to create and refresh this list on a regular basis, and obviously they can already do that as they have implemented a block. Wikipedia would have to agree that the Tor-Wikipedia Moderation Team would have the right to revert ANY change from a Tor exit node without discussion. Once the vandals realize that they won't have any fun using Tor to vandalize Wikipedia, the job of the TWMT would get quite easy, as I don't imagine there would be more than a few dozen real edits on any given day from the Tor cloud.

Or am I barking up the wrong tree here?

Well, it seems unlikely that we could recruit enough people to do this effectively. We already have a huge number of people monitoring the site, people who are (mostly) sympathetic to Tor's aims, but they get tired of it. --Jimbo ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]