On 2015-08-24 17:46, Gregory Varnum wrote: This is the article: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81_%28%D0%BD%D0%B… (it was moved from the origibal location, which is now a dab). The intention of the agency was to only block access to this page. What they will be actually blocking depends on how the https routing works. I do not know, it is either only the Russian Wikipedia, or all WMF projects. Cheers Yaroslav

I wonder if this is related to the recent blocking of reddit. < http://www.vocativ.com/news/221534/the-story-behind-russias-reddit-shutdown/ On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Romaine Wiki &lt;romaine.wiki(a)gmail.comwrote: > To me the basic step in such a case like this is translating the article > about the agency in more languages, so that people can get more background > information. The article: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervision_in_the_Sphere… > Creating awareness starts with having a good article about the organisation > in question. > Romaine > 2015-08-24 17:24 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter &lt;putevod(a)mccme.ru&gt;ru>: > > Today, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of > > Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications instructed all > > Russian internet providers to block all user access to Wikipedia. All > > involved parties are aware of the development. I am not sure whether only > > ru.wikipedia.org will be blocked, or all WMF projects. In the latter > > case, if you are going to travel to Russia, you will need to gen an IP > > exempt flag in advance in the projects you are going to edit. > > > Cheers > > Yaroslav > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane(a)bluerasberry.com