a similar research has been done about Iran by university of Pennsylvania http://www.global.asc.upenn.edu/fileLibrary/PDFs/CItation_Filtered_Wikipedia_Report_11_5_2013-2.pdf
it's really interesting :) On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Amir _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
