Talk:No open proxies/Archives/2018
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List of proxy
Sorry to bother but someone can check this list? Some IP in this list still vandalism in global projects wikipedia.Tnt1984 15:40, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
- Dead link, "404" error. Rags (talk) 12:31, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
"Open access means open proxies"
Wikipedia shuts out vast numbers of potential contributors, because they can only access Wikipedia using proxies.
I'm an author myself but have long stopped adding or correcting pages about my specialty, because half the time I'm forced to use a proxy and then cannot edit.
If it's about Wikipedia wanting to block spammers or hijackers of pages, find another method. In the so called Free World people aren't locked into or out of their apartment building because one person used it to send unsollicited flyers, or keeps shouting the same wrong or unwanted message over and over again. Wikipedia however does exactly that. Does that put Wikipedia outside the Free World?
If it's about preventing contributions from certain locations or groups, or if it's about wanting to know where contributors and readers are located, then please continue, and thus admit Wikipedis is outside the Free World.
As you can see, it's quite easy to make the point that Wikipedia isn't part of the Free World. So unless you want to continue this support of Wikipedia's opponents, and if you take open access seriously: open those proxies.
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.106.6.242 (talk) 16:08, 8 November 2018 (UTC)