[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Data centre switchover to Eqiad

2017-04-30 Thread Pine W
Forwarding.

Pine


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Date: Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 11:08 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Data centre switchover to Eqiad
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Hello,  as you may or may not already know there will be a datacentre
switch back to Eqiad, WMF's main data centre, on May 3rd at approximately
14:00 UTC. For approximately 20-30 minutes you will NOT be able to save
edits to any WMF project. If you have any questions feel free to reply back
to this email, or ask on IRC on freenode channel #wikimedia-tech. If there
any major issues that occur during this time please report them to
#wikimedia-tech on freenode!

Thanks,
Zppix
Volunteer Developer for WMF
www.enwp.org/User:Zppix
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [PRESS] Turkish authorities block Wikipedia

2017-04-30 Thread Pharos
The Wikipedia aspect was highlighted on the BBC and other sites in earlier
stories, before the other events happened.

Thanks,
Pharos

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Pine W  wrote:

> Now on the front page of the New York Times website:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/world/europe/turkey-
> purge-wikipedia-tv-dating-shows.html
>
> Wikipedia was mentioned, but not highlighted, by the BBC:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39759050
>
> Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [PRESS] Turkish authorities block Wikipedia

2017-04-30 Thread Pine W
Now on the front page of the New York Times website:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/world/europe/turkey-purge-wikipedia-tv-dating-shows.html

Wikipedia was mentioned, but not highlighted, by the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39759050

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [PRESS] Turkish authorities block Wikipedia

2017-04-30 Thread Gregory Varnum
Greetings,

We wanted to share with you all a blog post and more detailed statement we have 
just published: 
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/30/turkish-authorities-block-wikipedia/ 


Thank you, everyone, for your patience!

-greg



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> On Apr 30, 2017, at 9:51 AM, Isarra Yos  wrote:
> 
> This is a great way for them to ensure the rest of the world sees those 
> articles. Sort of. Bit inconveniencing to everyone actually IN Turkey...
> 
> -I
> 
> On 30/04/17 12:40, geni wrote:
>> FWIW the two articles the Turkish state is apparently complaining about are:
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism#Turkey
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War#Turkey
>> 
>> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [PRESS] Turkish authorities block Wikipedia

2017-04-30 Thread Isarra Yos
This is a great way for them to ensure the rest of the world sees those 
articles. Sort of. Bit inconveniencing to everyone actually IN Turkey...


-I

On 30/04/17 12:40, geni wrote:

FWIW the two articles the Turkish state is apparently complaining about are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism#Turkey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War#Turkey





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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [PRESS] Turkish authorities block Wikipedia

2017-04-30 Thread geni
On 29 April 2017 at 22:11, Juliet Barbara  wrote:
> Thank you, everyone, for your messages regarding the situation in Turkey.
> As you can imagine, this has been a very busy time for the Wikimedia
> Foundation's Legal, Communications, Technical Operations, and Community
> Engagement departments, and we apologize for not being able to respond to
> Wikimedia-l sooner.
>
>
> We are planning to publish a statement on the Wikimedia blog soon. In the
> meantime, we have been handling media and other inquiries with the
> following short statement, which we shared with the Communications
> Committee (ComCom) earlier this morning:
>
>
> "The Wikimedia Foundation has learned that access to Wikipedia has been
> blocked in Turkey as of Saturday, April 29th. Wikipedia is a rich and
> valuable source of neutral, reliable information in hundreds of languages,
> written by volunteers around the world. We are committed to ensuring that
> Wikipedia remains available to the millions of people who rely on it in
> Turkey. To that end, we are actively working with outside counsel to seek
> judicial review of the decision affecting access to Wikipedia. We hope the
> issue can be resolved promptly."
>
>
> We will continue to do our best to monitor this discussion, but I ask for
> your patience as we are managing inquiries coming in from multiple places.
>
>
> If you are receiving media inquiries about this, please contact
> pr...@wikimedia.org and we will be able to assist you. At this point, we
> believe that the most valuable point Wikimedians can make on behalf of
> Wikipedia is explaining its value as an educational resource.
>
>
> Thank you!
>
> Juliet
>


FWIW the two articles the Turkish state is apparently complaining about are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism#Turkey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War#Turkey


-- 
geni

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