On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@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)
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:35 PM, techman224 techman224@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". The same people who wrote that article are going around spreading links to these stupid claims about Erik Moller, to me it sounds like they have a little axe to grind.