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
Greetings,
there is a note online at the Roskomnadzor (the russian agency in question) web site referring to the block: http://rkn.gov.ru/news/rsoc/news34253.htm
Mathias
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
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
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Does anyone know more about the article on an illegal drug they are referring to?
Sounds like it’s just Russian Wikipedia and not the other languages or projects. Anyone able to verify?
-greg
On Aug 24, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings,
there is a note online at the Roskomnadzor (the russian agency in question) web site referring to the block: http://rkn.gov.ru/news/rsoc/news34253.htm
Mathias
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
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
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On 2015-08-24 17:46, Gregory Varnum wrote:
Does anyone know more about the article on an illegal drug they are referring to?
Sounds like it’s just Russian Wikipedia and not the other languages or projects. Anyone able to verify?
-greg
This is the article: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81_%28%D0%BD%D0%B0...
(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
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 putevod@mccme.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
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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 romaine.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
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 putevod@mccme.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
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2015-08-24 17:24 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.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
Now after less than a day the access is being restored again. The Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications removed the article from the list (there are several more Wikipedia articles which are still there, but there is no immediate threat for the time being). It is not clear why they decided to change their mind.
Cheers Yaroslav
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