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 are aware of the development. I am not sure whether 
only

ru.wikipedia.org will be blocked, or all WMF projects. In the latter
case, if you are going to travel to Russia, you will need to gen an IP
exempt flag in advance in the projects you are going to edit.

Cheers
Yaroslav



Now after less than a day the access is being restored again. The 
Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, 
Information Technologies and Mass Communications removed the article 
from the list (there are several more Wikipedia articles which are still 
there, but there is no immediate threat for the time being). It is not 
clear why they decided to change their mind.


Cheers
Yaroslav

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[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 ru.wikipedia.org will be blocked, or all WMF projects. In the 
latter case, if you are going to travel to Russia, you will need to gen 
an IP exempt flag in advance in the projects you are going to edit.


Cheers
Yaroslav

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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 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
 ru.wikipedia.org will be blocked, or all WMF projects. In the latter case,
 if you are going to travel to Russia, you will need to gen an IP exempt flag
 in advance in the projects you are going to edit.

 Cheers
 Yaroslav

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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,
 
 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 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
 ru.wikipedia.org will be blocked, or all WMF projects. In the latter case,
 if you are going to travel to Russia, you will need to gen an IP exempt flag
 in advance in the projects you are going to edit.
 
 Cheers
 Yaroslav
 
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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: 
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81_%28%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%89%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE%29


(it was moved from the origibal location, which is now a dab).

The intention of the agency was to only block access to this page. What 
they will be actually blocking depends on how the https routing works. I 
do not know, it is either only the Russian Wikipedia, or all WMF 
projects.


Cheers
Yaroslav

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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
 about the agency in more languages, so that people can get more background
 information. The article:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervision_in_the_Sphere_of_Telecom,_Information_Technologies_and_Mass_Communications

 Creating awareness starts with having a good article about the organisation
 in question.

 Romaine

 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 are aware of the development. I am not sure whether only
  ru.wikipedia.org will be blocked, or all WMF projects. In the latter
  case, if you are going to travel to Russia, you will need to gen an IP
  exempt flag in advance in the projects you are going to edit.
 
  Cheers
  Yaroslav
 
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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.

James
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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:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervision_in_the_Sphere_of_Telecom,_Information_Technologies_and_Mass_Communications

Creating awareness starts with having a good article about the organisation
in question.

Romaine

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 are aware of the development. I am not sure whether only
 ru.wikipedia.org will be blocked, or all WMF projects. In the latter
 case, if you are going to travel to Russia, you will need to gen an IP
 exempt flag in advance in the projects you are going to edit.

 Cheers
 Yaroslav

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