Re: [Wikimedia-l] Imminent block of access to Wikipedia in Russia

2015-08-25 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
2015-08-24 17:24 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru: Today, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications instructed all Russian internet providers to block all user access to Wikipedia. All involved parties

[Wikimedia-l] Imminent block of access to Wikipedia in Russia

2015-08-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Today, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications instructed all Russian internet providers to block all user access to Wikipedia. All involved parties are aware of the development. I am not sure whether only

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Imminent block of access to Wikipedia in Russia

2015-08-24 Thread Mathias Schindler
Greetings, there is a note online at the Roskomnadzor (the russian agency in question) web site referring to the block: http://rkn.gov.ru/news/rsoc/news34253.htm Mathias On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: Today, the Russian Federal Service for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Imminent block of access to Wikipedia in Russia

2015-08-24 Thread Gregory Varnum
Does anyone know more about the article on an illegal drug they are referring to? Sounds like it’s just Russian Wikipedia and not the other languages or projects. Anyone able to verify? -greg On Aug 24, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Imminent block of access to Wikipedia in Russia

2015-08-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2015-08-24 17:46, Gregory Varnum wrote: Does anyone know more about the article on an illegal drug they are referring to? Sounds like it’s just Russian Wikipedia and not the other languages or projects. Anyone able to verify? -greg This is the article:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Imminent block of access to Wikipedia in Russia

2015-08-24 Thread Lane Rasberry
I wonder if this is related to the recent blocking of reddit. http://www.vocativ.com/news/221534/the-story-behind-russias-reddit-shutdown/ On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: To me the basic step in such a case like this is translating the article

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Imminent block of access to Wikipedia in Russia

2015-08-24 Thread James Alexander
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Lane Rasberry l...@bluerasberry.com wrote: I wonder if this is related to the recent blocking of reddit. http://www.vocativ.com/news/221534/the-story-behind-russias-reddit-shutdown/ Same law of course, but there doesn't appear to be a direct connection.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Imminent block of access to Wikipedia in Russia

2015-08-24 Thread Romaine Wiki
To me the basic step in such a case like this is translating the article about the agency in more languages, so that people can get more background information. The article: