[Foundation-l] Arabic Wikipedia blocked in Syria

effe iets anders effeietsanders at gmail.com
Thu May 15 18:34:34 UTC 2008


Forwarding to Wikitech-l, maybe you know more of a solution?

-- Lodewijk

2008/5/15, Mohamed Magdy <mohamed.m.k op gmail.com>:
> Hello
>
>  Our Syrian users reported that Arabic Wikipedia access from Syria is being
>  blocked (reading and editing), the block started since 30/4/2008. The rest
>  of the languages are working properly. Advanced users can bypass the block
>  and view and edit (proxies) but the problem is that the majority cannot get
>  past the block. We don't know the reasons yet for this stupid block. Is
>  there anything to be done to help lift the block?
>
>
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