Why is the mobile site operational for English Wikipedia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more It says,
The Wikipedia community, as part of their request to the Wikimedia Foundation to carry out this protest, asked us to ensure that we make English Wikipedia accessible in some way during an emergency. The English Wikipedia will be accessible on mobile devices and smart phones.
Best regards, Benjamin Chen / User:Bencmq
On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 4:26 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
Why is the mobile site operational for English Wikipedia?
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On 18 January 2012 08:26, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Why is the mobile site operational for English Wikipedia?
The herd of cats wanted it that way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action
"Provisions for emergency access to the site should be included in the blackout software."
(I'm not convinced Wikipedia access counts as an "emergency". But it's not really a secure-hard blackout.)
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the emergency access should be at a different location.
mobile users should not be privileged.
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On 18 January 2012 08:58, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
the emergency access should be at a different location. mobile users should not be privileged.
Yeah, I thought it was a bit silly too. But I think we can live with it.
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So lets say that Wikipedia doesn't have a active anti vandal crew today, but people can still edit within the English Wikipedia by mobile phone.
So we will find in a year all kind of vandal edits done today?
On 18 January 2012 09:05, Huib Laurens sterkebak@gmail.com wrote:
So lets say that Wikipedia doesn't have a active anti vandal crew today, but people can still edit within the English Wikipedia by mobile phone. So we will find in a year all kind of vandal edits done today?
Only bots (I think) and some WMF people can edit en:wp today.
This could be the first time in *years* that Special:Recentchanges has been readable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:09 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Only bots (I think) and some WMF people can edit en:wp today.
Stewards and staff. No bots.
bringing my 5 cents: think that mobile users are not the one privileged here, since anyone can surf on m.wp. Guess that limited usability of m.wp compensate 100% lack of normanl WP. (following my friends post on WP this morning - everyone feels disturbed by this, and I am not from an english speaking country, as you can see here [1], online dictionary is solidar with WP)
all the best, /gheorghe
On 18.01.2012 10:58, John Vandenberg wrote:
the emergency access should be at a different location.
mobile users should not be privileged.
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:07:42 +0200, Zugravu Gheorghe zugravu.gheorghe@gmail.com wrote:
bringing my 5 cents: think that mobile users are not the one privileged here, since anyone can surf on m.wp. Guess that limited usability of m.wp compensate 100% lack of normanl WP. (following my friends post on WP this morning - everyone feels disturbed by this, and I am not from an english speaking country, as you can see here [1], online dictionary is solidar with WP)
all the best, /gheorghe
I second that. Also wanted to write a post like this.
Cheers Yaroslav
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