2009/3/25 Phil Nash <[email protected]>: > Not so much that the whole encyclopedia was blocked, more that the > collateral effect as a result of blocking vandalism was that a bottleneck > handful of re-routed proxy IP addresses was blocked; however, there was no > block on the image page itself, and anyone who knows the basics of the http: > protocol could work round it; and, of course, it only applied to en:wiki.
Yes, it was rather special that they (a) blocked encyclopedia text (b) failed to block the actual image they were intending to lblock. Usually our press is sweetness and neutral light. This time we were angry and made it known. I think this was a completely sccessful approach. When used very sparingly indeed. -d . _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
