Would it be an idea to put a message on the Farsi equivalent of the
village pump? That will be the place where you see most Iranian
Wikipedians, who then can be of help by checking whether the block is
there in all of Iran, or only in specific areas or ISPs. You might
also be able to find people who know the best way to proceed with
regard to the Iranian censors.
Andre Engels
2005/11/10, Erdal Ronahi <erdal.ronahi(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi,
my friend in Iran confirmed that at least two ISP in Teheran block the
Kurdish Wikipedia (
http://ku.wikipedia.org). The identical message on
both is:
Access Denied!
This page will not be accessible for the reason that in our database it
has been assinged to the category of blocked contents .
In the event the URL does not contain materials that are forbidden by
laws, please fill this form out then hit send.
However, one user from another part of Iran was able to reach it. The
mentioned form has meanwhile been filled and sent, but there is no
reaction yet.
I think that even a partial censoship against Wikipedia is of interest
for the community. The Kurdish Wikipedia is frequently attacked by
political vandalizm of Turkish writing users, who want to see all Kurds
"wiped out", but this is relatively easy to handle. There have been
reports before that Internet Cafe owners in Turkey are forced to install
software that blocks Kurdish content, including Wikipedia. This is the
first time we hear about such an incident from Iran.
Regards,
Erdal
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