Mailing List Archive: Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] GFW upgrade block level for Wikipedia

According to several Wikipedians living in Mainland China (excluding
Hong Kong and Macao), the GFW block on Wikimedia has been upgraded to
a new a level, it seems that:

* Official Wikimedia proxies are blocked;
* "zh.wikipedia.org" becomes a URL-level keyword for GFW.

The upgrade was noticed and reported as early as August 7, 2006 9:30 UTC.

This upgrade coincided with a Beijing News (æ–°äº¬å ±) report on Wikipedia.

Sources cited: the forwarded message below (in English), and a
discussion at zh_wikipedia@googlegroups (in Chinese).

More information should be available.

Please feel free to post messages in Chinese on this discussion
thread, they will be translated into English. (æœ¬è¨Žè«–ç·šä¸çš„ä¸æ–‡ä¿¡ä»¶æœƒè¢«ç¿»è¯ç‚ºè‹±æ–‡.)

If it is not appropriate to discuss this matter in public here, we may
continue the discussion in private methods, please advise.

Best regards and wishes.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: mingli yuan <mingli.yuan@gmail.com>
Date: 2006/8/8 ä¸Šåˆ 12:52
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] GFW upgrade block level for Wikipedia
To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org

After a report from Xinjingbao(The Beijing News,
http://www.thebeijingnews.com/ ) on Wikipedia, yesterday afternoon the Great
firewall of Chinese government upgrades its block level for Wikipedia. Today
many Wikipedia users in China report that they can not access Wikipedia via
the official proxy provides by MediaWiki Fundation.

This is a another bad news for Mainland Chinese Wikipedians again. Seems
hopeless for them.
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roc wrote:

>According to several Wikipedians living in Mainland China (excluding
>Hong Kong and Macao), the GFW block on Wikimedia has been upgraded to
>a new a level, it seems that:
>
>* Official Wikimedia proxies are blocked;
>* "zh.wikipedia.org" becomes a URL-level keyword for GFW.
>
>The upgrade was noticed and reported as early as August 7, 2006 9:30 UTC.
>
>This upgrade coincided with a Beijing News (æ–°äº¬å ±) report on Wikipedia.
>
>Sources cited: the forwarded message below (in English), and a
>discussion at zh_wikipedia@googlegroups (in Chinese).
>
>More information should be available.
>
>Please feel free to post messages in Chinese on this discussion
>thread, they will be translated into English. (æœ¬è¨Žè«–ç·šä¸çš„ä¸æ–‡ä¿¡ä»¶æœƒè¢«ç¿»è¯ç‚ºè‹±æ–‡.)
>
>If it is not appropriate to discuss this matter in public here, we may
>continue the discussion in private methods, please advise.
>
>Best regards and wishes.
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: mingli yuan <mingli.yuan@gmail.com>
>Date: 2006/8/8 ä¸Šåˆ 12:52
>Subject: [Wikipedia-l] GFW upgrade block level for Wikipedia
>To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org
>
>
>After a report from Xinjingbao(The Beijing News,
>http://www.thebeijingnews.com/ ) on Wikipedia, yesterday afternoon the Great
>firewall of Chinese government upgrades its block level for Wikipedia. Today
>many Wikipedia users in China report that they can not access Wikipedia via
>the official proxy provides by MediaWiki Fundation.
>
>This is a another bad news for Mainland Chinese Wikipedians again. Seems
>hopeless for them.
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>
>
Well,

Two sites in Korea and China have been mirroring the entire English
wikigadugi site and I have been allowing them to do so
based on this situation in China. I was also constantly under DOS
attacks from various folks on ChinaNet, all of them from
ranges in Bejing. They are still getting content and images from me
second hand, and I have blocked most of ChinaNet,
including two large schools in Bejing whose students sole purpose seems
to be to destroy my site through ssh hacking and
DOS attacks. I moved the ssh ports to the internet network and blocked
most of these ranges in the firewall for all ports except
port 80 READ commoands. Over the past month, these sites making mirrors
of the english version of wikigadugi have only
downloaded about 20% of the total English Wikipedia. I am guessing
someone over there is build a mirrored library of the
site in South Korea for use in China. I am happy to help them.

Jeff
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