Wikipedia Blocks Qatar [Updated] 204
GrumpySimon writes "Wikipedia has blocked the entire country of Qatar from editing pages. Whilst the ban is due to spam-abuse coming from the IP address in question, the fact that this belongs to the country's sole high-speed internet provider has the unintended consequence of stopping Qataris from editing the wiki. The ban has raised concerns about impartiality — the majority of Al Jazeera journalists operate out of Qatar, for example. This raises a number of issues about internet connectivity in small countries — what other internet bottlenecks like this exist?" Update: 01/02 13:32 GMT by Z : Jim Wales wrote in the comments that the story is 'completely false'. Either way, the ban has been lifted and anonymous editing is once again possible from Qatar.
well.. (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, according to wikipedia, the correct word is Qatarded, not Qatarese.
Re:OT: Qatar is not in the UAE (Score:5, Funny)
Says the guy who uses a Wikipedia link to back up his assertions... : p
Re:OT: Qatar is not in the UAE (Score:2, Funny)
Re:OT: Qatar is not in the UAE (Score:4, Funny)
I cant resist to suggest the use of the following tags:
So we can be sure what the story is not talking about. So the article "U.S. Mass Declassified Documents At Midnight" could use the tags !mattingHabitOfPurpleTurtles, !DanceLesson, !FreedomFriesRecipe, !WOWGoldFarming, !KillingOfKittens, !Cthulluh^wd, !takeOverTheWorld^wd, !LOL, ...
What is your favorite nontag?
Re:OT: Qatar is not in the UAE (Score:3, Funny)
!nontag
Re:Don't write if you don't read (Score:4, Funny)
Re:OT: Qatar is not in the UAE (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OT: Qatar is not in the UAE (Score:2, Funny)
If you don't provide a link to the article in question, the situation you describe will continue forever. If you do provide the link then it's possible it will be fixed. It also reduces your credibility significantly to be so vague.
I'm guessing that the article you're referring to is Foreskin [wikipedia.org] which looks reasonably well balanced to me right now.