Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia websites is not accessible almost everywhere in Iran

2015-10-01 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
A quick update: It's back but still unavailable in some ISPs. On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:24 PM Denny Vrandecic wrote: > Oh, thanks for the report. IP blocks suck more than DNS meddling... > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Amir Ladsgroup >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia websites is not accessible almost everywhere in Iran

2015-09-30 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
It seems IP of WMF wikis is being blocked so AFAIK it doesn't really depend on domain name. On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:32 PM Denny Vrandecic wrote: > IIRC we used to have the alternative URL > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/fa/wiki/ > > in order to access > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia websites is not accessible almost everywhere in Iran

2015-09-30 Thread Denny Vrandecic
Oh, thanks for the report. IP blocks suck more than DNS meddling... On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > It seems IP of WMF wikis is being blocked so AFAIK it doesn't really depend > on domain name. > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:32 PM Denny Vrandecic

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia websites is not accessible almost everywhere in Iran

2015-09-30 Thread Denny Vrandecic
IIRC we used to have the alternative URL https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/fa/wiki/ in order to access https://fa.wikinews.org/wiki but it seems that these were turned into redirects, probably when the https switch happened. Would it be an idea to not make them redirects but return the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia websites is not accessible almost everywhere in Iran

2015-09-30 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Block depends on so many factors, depends on ISP you can see wide range of behavior, for me nothing is blocked since my ISP is IPM. This behavior is changing and that's worrying to me. Wikipedia was accessible using Irancell in Tehran but right now it's not. More worrying, upload.wikimedia.org is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia websites is not accessible almost everywhere in Iran

2015-09-30 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Amir, On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > It had started with Wikimedia Commons and then upload.wikimedia.org (so no > images) and now Persian Wikinews What error do you get when you try to upload a picture? If you share couple of screen-shots,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia websites is not accessible almost everywhere in Iran

2015-09-30 Thread Mardetanha
Not all WMF websites are blocked in Iran, Till now commons is blocked and Fawikinews (starting this evening), as far as I contacted local authorities, they didn't confirm the block, they only said it might technical issue, I am still try to get more information to see what is happening