Re: [Wikimedia-l] Authorities in Myanmar blocks all languages of Wikipedia, says internet freedom watchdog = Qiuwen

2021-03-13 Thread Gnangarra
while its great to hear that people are getting around the blocks does a high watched publicly available list need to publicise that traffic is getting past the block, as this information potentially puts our friends at risk. Perhaps we should also be careful that the edits being made arent bad

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Authorities in Myanmar blocks all languages of Wikipedia, says internet freedom watchdog = Qiuwen

2021-03-13 Thread Risker
Anecdotally, we on English Wikipedia have received multiple requests for IP block exemption from residents of Myanmar, including requests for both local and global IP On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 at 19:56, Kunal Mehta wrote: > Hi, > > On 2/19/21 1:08 PM, 《求闻》编译组/Qiuwen WMCug wrote: > > Netblocks

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Authorities in Myanmar blocks all languages of Wikipedia, says internet freedom watchdog = Qiuwen

2021-03-13 Thread Kunal Mehta
Hi, On 2/19/21 1:08 PM, 《求闻》编译组/Qiuwen WMCug wrote: Netblocks provided additional information in a picture attached to the tweet, suggests that they have tested the connectivity of Wikipedia in English and French, Wikidata, and wikimedia.org, with none of them accessible. This may intimate that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] New Wikireplicas available, timeline update, and Quarry migration

2021-03-13 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Joaquin, Completely nothing was done with the community input about not being able to do cross wiki joins anymore [1]. In the past the WMF would do something with community input. I guess the new strategy is to just give the appearance of community input to legitimize a decision. Nice way