A quick update: It's back but still unavailable in some ISPs.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:24 PM Denny Vrandecic <dvrandecic(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Oh, thanks for the report. IP blocks suck more than
DNS meddling...
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
It seems IP of WMF wikis is being blocked so
AFAIK it doesn't really
depend
on domain name.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:32 PM Denny Vrandecic <
dvrandecic(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
IIRC we used to have the alternative URL
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/fa/wiki/
in order to access
https://fa.wikinews.org/wiki
but it seems that these were turned into redirects, probably when the
https
> switch happened.
>
> Would it be an idea to not make them redirects but return the content
on
> the wikimedia domain, or, even better, on
the wikipedia domain (and
maybe
> any of our domains) as well?
>
> Cheers,
> Denny
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Mardetanha <
mardetanha.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Not all WMF websites are blocked in Iran, Till now commons is blocked
and
> > Fawikinews (starting this evening), as far as I contacted local
> > authorities, they didn't confirm the block, they only said it might
> > technical issue, I am still try to get more information to see what
is
>
happening
>
>
> Mardetanha
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com
> > wrote:
> >
> > > It had started with Wikimedia Commons and then
upload.wikimedia.org
> (so
> > no
> > > images) and now Persian Wikinews and I just realized except a few
> number
> > of
> > > ISPs all WM websites are blocked everywhere. Obviously analytics
can
give
> > more details.
> >
> > I talked with legal team in Wikimania and asked them for a direct
talk
> or
> > > any kind of negotiation with Iranian government to make things
easier
> but
> > > It's going worse. they lifted block on CNN once Rouhani had
interview
>
with
> > them two years ago.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Best
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