On 2/19/14, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote: > An analysis of Syrian internet censorship shows Wikimedia sites among the > top 10 censored domains. See Table 5 on page 6. > > The data they're analyzing is the filtering proxy logs from October 2011, > so a lot's changed in our systems since then; for instance, the section on > page 7 regarding HTTPS traffic might be completely inapplicable to us now. > But I figured it was worth passing around. > > Paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.3401.pdf , found via > http://boingboing.net/2014/02/18/detailed-analysis-of-syrias.html . > "Censorship in the Wild: Analyzing Web Filtering in Syria" by Abdelberi > Chaabane, Mathieu Cunche, Terence Chen, Arik Friedman, Emiliano De > Cristofaro, and Mohammed-Ali Kafaar. > > > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
I only skimmed the paper, but interestingly all the charts mention wikimedia.org being censored, not wikipedia.org. I imagine that means they are censoring pictures/videos rather than actual articles (presumably.). --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
