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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>: > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
