[Wikimedia-l] No access to the Uzbek Wikipedia in Uzbekistan

[Anonymous User]

Dear all, dear Tim,

I want to extend the "thank you" from the Uzbek Wikipedia community. I let
them use their own words (although, translated for the benefit of this
list).

user 1: wow, it's great! who has done it
user 2: wikimedia programmers
user 1; super! real heroes!
user 3: thank you, thank you, thank you!
user 4: so now we're waiting for google to index uzwiki
user 2: it's awesome, i cannot even express how awesome it is
user 2: Thank you guys for helping us. And special thanks to Tim Starling.
user 2: We're going to introduce Tim Starling day in Uzbek Wikipedia as well

I also pinged my contacts at Google, hoping that they can schedule the
reindexing soon. Thanks to everyone involved.

Rahmat va salomlar!





On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On 24/12/12 20:23, Anonymous User wrote:
> > I don't know how much effort each of these two measures would be. If
> you'd
> > ask me, I would suggest to be "very serious", but we are not under a
> > deadline (the situation has been like this for more than a year now), and
> > setting the rel="caonical" would already be really, really helpful.
>
> This is done now. It would be good if Google could crawl
> uz.wikipedia.org to update the canonical URLs.
>
> In case anyone is wondering, I don't think this would be a good thing
> to do on zh.wikipedia.org. The Chinese government would happily block
> *.wikipedia.org port 443 if it became popular. At least the current
> situation provides a way to work around keyword filtering for people
> who are sufficiently motivated -- if HTTPS was blocked, it would be
> much less useful.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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