@Rex: I’m curious to know more about this “0.4$ for 750 MB each day”
thing. Which provider is that?
The network is Airtel. Precisely, its 1 cedi per each day for 750 MB, which
I checked the exchange rate now stands at 0.26$.
The idea of mass ip blocking isn't going to fix things. A bot is simply the
solution imho. It just scans recently uploaded content using certain
filters and deletes those that doesn't meet specific requirements.
On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Mohammed Sadat <masssly(a)ymail.com> wrote:
I like that saying “Desperate times call for desperate
measures” 😉
It appears the “bad use of Wikipedia” is still happening, unfortunately.
Obviously it’s a difficult problem to solve. One way it is currently being
handled is to mass block IP range addresses - I think it isn’t the best
solution. Some good faith editors are affected by that, many of whom do not
know they can request an IP block exempt. The good news is that people are
discussing this thoroughly and looking for ways to stop it.
@Rex: I’m curious to know more about this “0.4$ for 750 MB each day”
thing. Which provider is that?
-Masssly
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No, I don't think it's been shared here.
Their approach is the last thing I would ever think of to use Wikipedia
for.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, they say.
2.5$ for 50 MB? That's insanely expensive. Just, why? One can get 0.4$ for
750 MB each day, *even,* Ghana
I'm sure a solution to the problem regarding the wikis isn't overly
complex as can be handled by a bot that runs through recently uploaded
pictures and documents on the Portuguese wiki, verifying the uploaded
content are actually what they are and deleting the ones that do not match
specific filters. Might be processing intensive, but I'm sure will be a
great compromise.
The only surprising part for me is how long the WMF has known about it,
and I can't tell if the bad use of the wiki is still happening, because if
it is, then well....
On Mar 26, 2016 10:19, "Ato Ulzen-Appiah" <abocco(a)gmail.com
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Not sure this has been shared here.
So I wanted to share this here for info and possible discussion.
Summary from Writer
Enterprising Angolans have used two free services—Facebook Free Basics and
Wikipedia Zero—to share pirated movies, music, television shows, anime, and
games on Wikipedia. And no one knows what to do about it.
Because the data is completely free, Angolans are hiding large files in
Wikipedia articles on the Portuguese Wikipedia site (Angola is a former
Portuguese colony)—sometimes concealing movies in JPEG or PDF files.
They’re then using a Facebook group to direct people to those files,
creating a robust, completely free file sharing network. A description for
a Facebook group with 2,700 members reads
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/1553180724893584/>: “created with the
objective of sharing music, movies, pictures, and ANIMES via Wikimedia.” I
was not admitted into the Facebook group and none of its administrators
responded to my messages for an interview.
Long read
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-zero-facebook-free-basics-angol…
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