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] Authorities in Myanmar blocks all languages of Wikipedia, says internet freedom watchdog = Qiuwen

2021-02-20 Thread Jan Gerlach
Hello everyone Thanks for alerting the list to this. Various teams at the Foundation have been monitoring the situation in Myanmar and continue to do so. While we are currently still gathering data to better understand what is actually happening, our initial analysis indicates that the

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

2021-02-19 Thread Alexander N Krassotkin
On Russian Wikinews: Устроившая переворот в Мьянме хунта заблокировала Википедию https://ru.wikinews.org/?curid=8842919 We also await official comment from the Wikimedia Foundation. sasha. On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 11:09 PM 《求闻》编译组/Qiuwen WMCug wrote: > > BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Qiuwen) - NetBlocks,

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

2021-02-19 Thread 《求闻》编译组/Qiuwen WMCug
BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Qiuwen) - NetBlocks, the internet freedom advocacy group, says Wikipedia was blocked in Myanmar by the authorities. NetBlocks confirms "all language editions of Wikipedia" were down in Myanmar starting Thursday morning local time. In a tweet [1], Netblocks said, this is