(resend this, as accidentally went offlist) 2008/12/7 Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Well, if they enable XFF headers on there proxy servers, that will be >>> ok, but I heard that some ISP's are blocking Wikipedia altogether. >> >> Heard where? That's new to me. XFF headers would be very useful, but >> they are irrelevant to the censorship issue. > > Nor the performance issue: Yesterday I was attempting to scan all enwp > articles to see what else was blocked but found that around 1-3% of > the requests were just randomly failing. Some of these proxies are > already overloaded, come monday it may be especially painful. (Weekend > is low traffic for enwp)
Mmm. I suspect this is the problem - people getting (unintentional) failures report everything's blocked. Which is sort of is by effect, but not by intent... > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:35 PM, techman224 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Wikinews has also learned that some ISPs have blocked customers from >> accessing some Wikimedia websites including the free, online >> encyclopedia, Wikipedia, altogether." >> Yes there is. > > That wikinews article has several glaring inaccuracies and completely > unsourced statements which which the Wikinews admins refuse to > correct. I wouldn't consider it too credible. You should go ask them > for a citation more substantial that "wikinews has learned". I've left a note on the talkpage asking for expansion of the remark. -- - Andrew Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
