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)
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". 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.