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

[Anthony]

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 ?