David Gerard wrote: >> 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.
I think we came out of it not covered in excrement: result! I think we got our response exactly right, despite the difficulties of explaining the technicalities to a non-technical audience. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
