(resend this, as accidentally went offlist)
2008/12/7 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, if
they enable XFF headers on there proxy servers, that will be
ok, but I heard that some ISP's are blocking Wikipedia altogether.
Heard where? That's new to me. XFF headers would be very useful, but
they are irrelevant to the censorship issue.
Nor the performance issue: Yesterday I was attempting to scan all enwp
articles to see what else was blocked but found that around 1-3% of
the requests were just randomly failing. Some of these proxies are
already overloaded, come monday it may be especially painful. (Weekend
is low traffic for enwp)
Mmm. I suspect this is the problem - people getting (unintentional)
failures report everything's blocked. Which is sort of is by effect,
but not by intent...
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:35 PM, techman224
<techman224(a)yahoo.ca> wrote:
"Wikinews has also learned that some ISPs
have blocked customers from
accessing some Wikimedia websites including the free, online
encyclopedia, Wikipedia, altogether."
Yes there is.
That wikinews article has several glaring inaccuracies and completely
unsourced statements which which the Wikinews admins refuse to
correct. I wouldn't consider it too credible. You should go ask them
for a citation more substantial that "wikinews has learned".
I've left a note on the talkpage asking for expansion of the remark.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk