cleanfeed and wikipedia

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <Pine.SOC.4.64.0812092353120.509@bowling.cent.gla.ac.uk>,
Chris Edwards <chris@eng.gla.ac.uk> writes

>Ian Batten wrote:
>
>| Does anyone know how the precise Wikipedia page that was being blocked 
>| was found?  It's a low-traffic page worldwide.
>
>I'd been wondering that too.  It's normally viewed a few hundred times per 
>day, so not impossible a genuine UK rock fan noticed.

What seems to have happened is that Wikipedia worked out that their
authentication problem was a great many users all using the same IP
addresses. The penny then dropped that this was because there was a
"child porn" image somewhere and filtering proxies were in use...

... a few likely suggestions for the image that was being blocked were
aired and then someone was able to test that one of these suggestions
was the relevant one  [note that the image had already been very
controversial 6 months ago when the FBI decided not to take action]

So the fact that it was the Virgin Killer page was understood by around
15:13 on Friday 6th December.

By 18:30 on Friday 6th the issue tracking page looked like this

<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%
27_noticeboard/2008_IWF_action&oldid=256268056>

(I don't have sufficient wikipedia-fu to find earlier versions, possibly
since they seem to have renamed the page)

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richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin

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