Thank you everyone for your help, and I especially appreciate Sumanah for setting up the bug and making the RT ticket happen. Unfortunately, I cannot track the progress of the RT ticket, but I am sure someone will keep us posted on the Bugzilla bug or on this list.
Eternal gratitude to everyone involved! Regarding the discussion about the IP, here are my thoughts, but maybe I am missing a number of the technical intricacies here: I am not sure if I understand correctly, but having access through the IP does not seem to improve the situation. Remember that access through https is perfectly possible. So for anyone who really wants to access the wiki and knows about the https-access, they can. The problem are those people that do not know about it. There are no people coming to the Uzbek Wikipedia through search engines, because they link to the http-protocol version of the URLs. That is why making the https-Version canonical and thus the addresses the search engines eventually point to much more useful. One could make the IP-Adress directly canonical -- otherwise setting up this extra-IP would not bring any advantage -- and thus avoid DNS, but this is not required to resolve the current problem, and it sure would not be very pretty. Also, IP-banning a single IP through an ISP is all but hard for an ISP. And anyway, it would need to be configured to setup a canonical URL, which is the currently suggested next step anyway. Therefore I would suggest to refrain from setting up a specific IP (besides the technicality of having too few IPs around), at least for now, and concentrate on canonizing the HTTPS protocol (as summed up in the Bug). Thank you again! On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:05 AM, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > How many languages _need_ this? > > Is it only one language-project? > > If you only need one IP address, to avoid censorship by one country, it > should be achievable. > > John Vandenberg. > sent from Galaxy Note > On Dec 28, 2012 4:21 AM, "Leslie Carr" <lc...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > > > > I wish that http://208.80.154.225/wiki/Bosh_Sahifa and > > > https://208.80.154.225/wiki/Bosh_Sahifa would work, too, but the > > > foundation apparently can't or chooses not to afford separate IP > > > addresses for each language's Wikipedia. > > > > As one of the network folks, I will answer this. We do not have > > enough public IP(v4)s for an address for each language in each > > project, and unless someone gives us a major donation of IPv4 > > addresses (anyone have a spare /20 laying around?), I don't think we > > will be able to make this happen as we are frugal with our existing > > IPs and the allocating authorities (RIPE and ARIN) are being quite > > strict with their new IPv4 allocations. > > > > If you'd like to read more about IP allocation policies, here's a few > links > > https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#four3 > > https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_depletion.html > > https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-553 (see section 5.6) > > > > > > Leslie > > > > -- > > Leslie Carr > > Wikimedia Foundation > > AS 14907, 43821 > > http://as14907.peeringdb.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l