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**Feature summary** (what you would like to be able to do and where): 1. Set up a special sign-up portal exclusively for users in China that contains only a sign-up form on a hidden IP address to avoid DNS poisoning (the sign-up portal would contain no articles to avoid upsetting the censors, causing the portal to be blocked), with the IP changing frequently to avoid blocking. 2. Have a special button on Wikipedia to "**request sign-up from China**", and when that button is clicked, the user will receive an email to the sign-up portal's IP address. The user will then disconnect their VPN, go to their mailbox (such as QQ or 163), and click the IP address to access the sign-up portal. 3. The sign-up portal detects the IP address of the user, and if the user is on a residential China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom or China Broadnet IP (the four ISPs of China), the sign-up will proceed normally, and the user will be automatically granted IPBE, so they can then edit normally. (If the user is not in China, they are not allowed to use this special portal to gain IPBE.) 4. Then, the user simply reconnects to their VPN, goes back to the main WP website, and starts editing. **Use case(s)** (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution): Probably this feature can not only serve Chinese users, but also other user whose country blocks Wikimedia projects/ **Benefits** (why should this be implemented?): Users affected by online censorship can more easily register and edit Wikipedia. --- The idea firstly come from a proposal in [enwiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Streamline_the_sign-up_process_for_new_editors_from_China) and got fully discussed in [zhwiki](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%92%E5%8A%A9%E5%AE%A2%E6%A0%88/%E5%85%B6%E4%BB%96#%E8%AE%A9%E5%9F%BA%E9%87%91%E4%BC%9A%E6%8F%90%E4%BE%9B%E4%B8%80%E4%B8%AA%E7%BB%B4%E5%9F%BA%E7%99%BE%E7%A7%91%E7%9A%84%E5%AE%98%E6%96%B9%E9%95%9C%E5%83%8F%E6%88%96%E5%AE%98%E6%96%B9VPN%E4%BB%A5%E5%B8%AE%E5%8A%A9%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B7%E6%B3%A8%E5%86%8C%E8%B4%A6%E5%8F%B7%E6%88%96%E7%BC%96%E8%BE%91%EF%BC%9F). At the same time, they also made other proposals such as: 1. Create an official, censored mirror of Wikipedia, based in China. 2. Let the Wikimedia Foundation spend money to provide VPNs to Chinese users. 3. Use SMS, WeChat or Alipay money transfer to verify the user is from China.

**Feature summary** (what you would like to be able to do and where): 1. Set up a special sign-up portal exclusively for users in China that contains only a sign-up form on a hidden IP address to avoid DNS poisoning (the sign-up portal would contain no articles to avoid upsetting the censors, causing the portal to be blocked), with the IP changing frequently to avoid blocking. 2. Have a special button on Wikipedia to "**request sign-up from China**", and when that button is clicked, the user will receive an email to the sign-up portal's IP address. The user will then disconnect their VPN, go to their mailbox (such as QQ or 163), and click the IP address to access the sign-up portal. 3. The sign-up portal detects the IP address of the user, and if the user is on a residential China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom or China Broadnet IP (the four ISPs of China), the sign-up will proceed normally, and the user will be automatically granted IPBE, so they can then edit normally. (If the user is not in China, they are not allowed to use this special portal to gain IPBE.) 4. Then, the user simply reconnects to their VPN, goes back to the main WP website, and starts editing. **Use case(s)** (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution): Probably this feature can not only serve Chinese users, but also other user whose country blocks Wikimedia projects/ **Benefits** (why should this be implemented?): Users affected by online censorship can more easily register and edit Wikipedia. --- The idea firstly come from a proposal in [enwiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Streamline_the_sign-up_process_for_new_editors_from_China) and got fully discussed in [zhwiki](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%92%E5%8A%A9%E5%AE%A2%E6%A0%88/%E5%85%B6%E4%BB%96#%E8%AE%A9%E5%9F%BA%E9%87%91%E4%BC%9A%E6%8F%90%E4%BE%9B%E4%B8%80%E4%B8%AA%E7%BB%B4%E5%9F%BA%E7%99%BE%E7%A7%91%E7%9A%84%E5%AE%98%E6%96%B9%E9%95%9C%E5%83%8F%E6%88%96%E5%AE%98%E6%96%B9VPN%E4%BB%A5%E5%B8%AE%E5%8A%A9%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B7%E6%B3%A8%E5%86%8C%E8%B4%A6%E5%8F%B7%E6%88%96%E7%BC%96%E8%BE%91%EF%BC%9F). At the same time, they also made other proposals such as: 1. Create an official, censored mirror of Wikipedia, based in China. 2. Let the Wikimedia Foundation spend money to provide VPNs to Chinese users. 3. Use SMS, WeChat or Alipay money transfer to verify the user is from China. For 1, I personally don’t want to see it set up. For 2, it's cat-and-mouse game, I don’t know how long it will last. For 3, it may cause privacy issues for Chinese users.

**Feature summary** (what you would like to be able to do and where): 1. Set up a special sign-up portal exclusively for users in China that contains only a sign-up form on a hidden IP address to avoid DNS poisoning (the sign-up portal would contain no articles to avoid upsetting the censors, causing the portal to be blocked), with the IP changing frequently to avoid blocking. 2. Have a special button on Wikipedia to "**request sign-up from China**", and when that button is clicked, the user will receive an email to the sign-up portal's IP address. The user will then disconnect their VPN, go to their mailbox (such as QQ or 163), and click the IP address to access the sign-up portal. 3. The sign-up portal detects the IP address of the user, and if the user is on a residential China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom or China Broadnet IP (the four ISPs of China), the sign-up will proceed normally, and the user will be automatically granted IPBE, so they can then edit normally. (If the user is not in China, they are not allowed to use this special portal to gain IPBE.) 4. Then, the user simply reconnects to their VPN, goes back to the main WP website, and starts editing. **Use case(s)** (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution): Probably this feature can not only serve Chinese users, but also other user whose country blocks Wikimedia projects/ **Benefits** (why should this be implemented?): Users affected by online censorship can more easily register and edit Wikipedia. --- The idea firstly come from a proposal in [enwiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Streamline_the_sign-up_process_for_new_editors_from_China) and got fully discussed in [zhwiki](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%92%E5%8A%A9%E5%AE%A2%E6%A0%88/%E5%85%B6%E4%BB%96#%E8%AE%A9%E5%9F%BA%E9%87%91%E4%BC%9A%E6%8F%90%E4%BE%9B%E4%B8%80%E4%B8%AA%E7%BB%B4%E5%9F%BA%E7%99%BE%E7%A7%91%E7%9A%84%E5%AE%98%E6%96%B9%E9%95%9C%E5%83%8F%E6%88%96%E5%AE%98%E6%96%B9VPN%E4%BB%A5%E5%B8%AE%E5%8A%A9%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B7%E6%B3%A8%E5%86%8C%E8%B4%A6%E5%8F%B7%E6%88%96%E7%BC%96%E8%BE%91%EF%BC%9F). At the same time, they also made other proposals such as: 1. Create an official, censored mirror of Wikipedia, based in China. 2. Let the Wikimedia Foundation spend money to provide VPNs to Chinese users. 3. Use SMS, WeChat or Alipay money transfer to verify the user is from China. For 1, I personally don’t want to see it set up. For 2, it's cat-and-mouse game, I don’t know how long it will last. For 3, it may cause privacy issues for Chinese users.