[Foundation-l] Arabic Wikipedia blocked in Syria

[Todd Allen]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:34 PM, effe iets anders
<effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> Forwarding to Wikitech-l, maybe you know more of a solution?
>
> -- Lodewijk
>
> 2008/5/15, Mohamed Magdy <mohamed.m.k at 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?
>>
>>
>>  --
>>  --alnokta
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I doubt if they could block all of the mirrors out there. That would
make for a solution at least for reading, and many mirrors update
relatively frequently.

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