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Tor users should be met with good faith, as there are good reasons to use anonymity networks. In countries that censor Wikipedia or block it completely, [1] it is one of the few ways of accessing Wikipedia. Additionally, in light of governmental surveillance programs, users may choose to use Tor in order to exercise their right to anonymity.
An autoblock is an automatic block of an IP address.Autoblocks are the result of an attempt to edit Wikipedia from an IP address recently used by a blocked user. Each time a user edits Wikipedia, the IP address from which the edit was made is logged (this log is accessible only by a very small number of trusted users, called checkusers).
Several actions on the English Wikipedia (such as article creation) are restricted to user accounts that are at least 4 days old and have made at least 10 edits. Users who meet these requirements are considered part of the pseudo-group autoconfirmed. The conditions for autoconfirmed status are checked every time a user attempts to perform a ...
Internet censorship circumvention is the use of various methods and tools to bypass internet censorship. There are many different techniques to bypass such censorship, each with unique challenges regarding ease of use, speed, and security risks.
BugMeNot is an Internet service that provides usernames and passwords allowing Internet users to bypass mandatory free registration on websites.It was started in August 2003 by an anonymous person, later revealed to be Guy King, [1] and allowed Internet users to access websites that have registration walls (for instance, that of The New York Times) with the requirement of compulsory registration.
A1: A block prevents a user account, an IP address, or a range of IP addresses from editing Wikipedia, either partially or entirely. Blocked users can still open, access, and read any article or page on Wikipedia; they just cannot modify or edit any pages that are restricted by the block.
Contribs ranger is a user script for generating links to a limited set (range) of user contributions (aka contribs), a user's logged actions, or of edits of particular page. This is useful when you want to link to a result of using mass-edit tools, like JWB , Cat-a-lot , massMover , etc.
Choosing a username that is too similar to an existing username (in these cases, an account creator can approve the creation of similar usernames if certain criteria are met). Using a shared IP address or network connection (such as a public, school, or enterprise network) that has been blocked from editing Wikipedia, restricting you from ...