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

[Anthony]

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.