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Users are prohibited from editing anonymously through open or anonymous proxies. Accounts may not be created through open or anonymous proxies but may be created through account creation

If you have been blocked as an open proxy, please see Help:blocked. Proxies are left open due to deliberate or inadvertent configuration or because hackers have changed the configuration. No restrictions are placed on reading Wikipedia through an open or anonymous proxy.

When discovered, open proxies should be soft blocked with account creation blocked.

Open proxies are banned from editing Wikimedia projects. Anonymizers and other companies or organizations that offer open proxies may be blocked indefinitely by an administrator. Non-static IPs or hosts that are otherwise not permanent proxies typically warrant blocking for a shorter period of time, as the IP is likely to be transferred, the open proxy is likely to be closed, or the IP is likely to be re-assigned dynamically.

This policy is known to cause hardship to some editors, who must use open proxies to circumvent censorship where they live; a well-known example is the government of the People's Republic of China, which attempts to prevent its citizens from reading or editing Wikipedia. Chinese readers who wish to edit Wikipedia should read Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall.