Re: [Wikimedia-l] Authorities in Myanmar blocks all languages of Wikipedia, says internet freedom watchdog = Qiuwen

2021-03-13 Thread Gnangarra 
while its great to hear that people are getting around the blocks does a
high watched publicly available list need to publicise that traffic is
getting past the block, as this information potentially puts our friends at
risk.   Perhaps we should also be careful  that the edits being made
arent bad faith military junta actors.

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 at 09:17, Risker  wrote:

> Anecdotally, we on English Wikipedia have received multiple requests for
> IP block exemption from residents of Myanmar, including requests for both
> local and global IP
>
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 at 19:56, Kunal Mehta  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2/19/21 1:08 PM, 《求闻》编译组／Qiuwen WMCug wrote:
>> > Netblocks provided additional information in a picture attached to the
>> tweet,
>> > suggests that they have tested the connectivity of Wikipedia in English
>> and
>> > French, Wikidata, and wikimedia.org, with none of them accessible.
>> This may
>> > intimate that it is highly that the Burmese authorities not only
>> blocked "all
>> > language editions of Wikipedia," but all Wikimedia projects, as a
>> whole. The
>> > picture also suggests that Wikipedia remains inaccessible across four
>> different
>> > internet service providers in Myanmar.
>>
>> NetBlocks really isn't a reliable source, see .
>>
>> Instead, I'd recommend following OONI, which published their own
>> findings a few days ago:
>> <
>> https://ooni.org/post/2021-myanmar-internet-blocks-and-outages/#blocking-of-wikipedia
>> >.
>>
>> -- Legoktm
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Authorities in Myanmar blocks all languages of Wikipedia, says internet freedom watchdog = Qiuwen

2021-03-13 Thread Risker 
Anecdotally, we on English Wikipedia have received multiple requests for IP
block exemption from residents of Myanmar, including requests for both
local and global IP

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 at 19:56, Kunal Mehta  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2/19/21 1:08 PM, 《求闻》编译组／Qiuwen WMCug wrote:
> > Netblocks provided additional information in a picture attached to the
> tweet,
> > suggests that they have tested the connectivity of Wikipedia in English
> and
> > French, Wikidata, and wikimedia.org, with none of them accessible. This
> may
> > intimate that it is highly that the Burmese authorities not only blocked
> "all
> > language editions of Wikipedia," but all Wikimedia projects, as a whole.
> The
> > picture also suggests that Wikipedia remains inaccessible across four
> different
> > internet service providers in Myanmar.
>
> NetBlocks really isn't a reliable source, see .
>
> Instead, I'd recommend following OONI, which published their own
> findings a few days ago:
> <
> https://ooni.org/post/2021-myanmar-internet-blocks-and-outages/#blocking-of-wikipedia
> >.
>
> -- Legoktm
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Authorities in Myanmar blocks all languages of Wikipedia, says internet freedom watchdog = Qiuwen

2021-03-13 Thread Kunal Mehta 

Hi,

On 2/19/21 1:08 PM, 《求闻》编译组／Qiuwen WMCug wrote:

Netblocks provided additional information in a picture attached to the tweet,
suggests that they have tested the connectivity of Wikipedia in English and
French, Wikidata, and wikimedia.org, with none of them accessible. This may
intimate that it is highly that the Burmese authorities not only blocked "all
language editions of Wikipedia," but all Wikimedia projects, as a whole. The
picture also suggests that Wikipedia remains inaccessible across four different
internet service providers in Myanmar.


NetBlocks really isn't a reliable source, see .

Instead, I'd recommend following OONI, which published their own 
findings a few days ago: 
.


-- Legoktm

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] New Wikireplicas available, timeline update, and Quarry migration

2021-03-13 Thread Maarten Dammers 

Hi Joaquin,

Completely nothing was done with the community input about not being 
able to do cross wiki joins anymore [1]. In the past the WMF would do 
something with community input. I guess the new strategy is to just give 
the appearance of community input to legitimize a decision. Nice way to 
alienate the volunteers.


Maarten

[1] 
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud/2020-November/thread.html#1309


On 12-03-2021 19:16, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez wrote:

TLDR:
- Instead of `*.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs` use `*.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud` 
to use the new replicas

- Quarry will migrate March 23 to use the new cluster
- In a ~month (April 15) the old cluster will start retiring. See 
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign#Timeline 
for more details


Hi everyone,

I'm happy to announce that the new replicas cluster is available for 
use after a few weeks open for testing.


To use the new cluster, you will only need to change the hostname when 
connecting to the databases. Instead of `*.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs` you 
can use `*.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud`. See:


- 
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign#New_host_names
- 
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign#How_can_I_test_the_new_replicas_before_the_switchover?

- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Database


This brings us to the timeline updates:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign#Timeline

- March 2021
  - Announce new cluster domains for all users - March 12
  - Migrate Quarry to use the new cluster - March 23
- April 2021
  - PAWS migration - Estimated first week of April
  - Migrate the old cluster to utilize new replication hosts. 
Replication may stop. - April 15

  - Redirect old hostnames to the new cluster - April 28

Quarry is ready so it will transition first to use the new replicas. 
This will happen on March 23, at which point we will deploy the 
changes and update the docs. We are publishing a note on Tech news but 
if there are other venues where this information would be useful 
please help us spread the word.


PAWS is in the process of being migrated. We estimate it could be 
ready to use the new cluster at the beginning of April, and will 
publish more details as soon as we know.


On April 15 the old cluster will be moved under the new replication 
hosts, at which point there may be side effects and replication may stop.
We recommend you update your code earlier to use the new hostnames to 
verify things are working normally.


Not long after, the old hostnames (`*.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs`) will be 
redirected to the new ones (`*.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud`), at which 
point the old cluster will effectively be inaccessible.



If you have questions or need help please reply to 
cl...@lists.wikimedia.org , join the 
#wikimedia-cloud IRC channel, or open a ticket in Phabricator with 
the Data-Services tag.


Thanks,

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