[Foundation-l] WP edit/access blocking in the UK - statement from the WMF

[Anthony]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> David Gerard wrote:
>>> > 2008/12/8 Jay A. Walsh:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Censorship_of_WP_in_the_UK_Dec_2008
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/07/how-the-great-firewa.html
>>> >
>>> > How the Great Firewall of Britain works
>>> >
>>> > - d.
>>>
>>> Interesting, which urls are they blocking?
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virgin_Killer
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer?bypass_censorship
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virgin_Killer&iwf=please_dont_censor_me
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=256646302
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IDW_censors_wikipedia&action=submit&preload=Virgin_Killer
>>>
>>> Blocking each and every way to access one article on MediaWiki is a bit
>>> hard. Unless thay are actually reading the page content and so risk
>>> blocking any page containing the words 'Virgin Killer'.
>>
>>
>> Any page containing the url of the image would make more sense.
>>
>> Are they blocking
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virgin_Killer&oldid=256621147 ?
>

I guess http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=256621147 would be a
better test.