[WikiEN-l] UK censorship: I'm on BBC Radio 4 Today show

[geni]

2008/12/8 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> If we can get them to filter upload.wikimedia.org instead of
>> en.wikipedia.org, that would fix the vandalism issue. Failing that, I'd
>> like to see if we can get the ISPs to send XFF headers. The vandalism
>> issue was mostly ignored in the news reports, and mainly affects Wikipedia
>> editors and administrators rather than the general public.
>
> Can we get a list of current thumbnails for the image that they would
> want to be blocking?
>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/33/Virgin_Killer.jpg/200px-Virgin_Killer.jpg
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Virgin_Killer.jpg
>
> Anything else?
>

Since wikipedians can rapidly generate very large numbers of thumbnail
URLs and have just the "sod you" attitude to do it such an approach is
unlikely to be effective. Blocking wikipedia by URL is unlikely to be
effective.



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geni