Qatar repeatedly blocked from editing Wikipedia
Qatar, the country whose airline sponsors the weather forecasts on a number of major news channels, has been repeatedly banned from editing Wikipedia.
The problem is caused by an IP address used by a proxy server of the country’s only broadband ISP being repeatedly banned due to vandalism. The problem is that this IP address will be used by all users of the ISP (reading the comments suggests that the ISP transparently proxies the HTTP traffic so the user can’t just disable the proxy).
Many Al Jazeera journalists are based in Qatar meaning that this block has raised concerns about impartiality. However, if Al Jazeera do want to make a contribution then they can easily get around this ban due to their presence in other countries.
The solution seems to be that Wikipedia need to contact this ISP to try and get the offending user banned. In the meantime users could manually set up their own proxies external to this ISP, but that is not a solution for the majority.