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Story: IWF chief: Why Wikipedia block went wrong
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[Thanks for the email about the comment problem. Edited version below.]
I'm David Gerard, the volunteer press person for Wikipedia who spoke to the press during the incident.
One thing I didn't find out until Monday night (by which time the news cycle had ended): they blocked the page about the album, on en.wikipedia.org, and they blocked the page describing the image, on en.wikipedia.org ... but they didn't actually block the image itself, on upload.wikimedia.org.
But then, large websites have only been using separate image and text servers since 1995, so we could hardly expect the IWF to be up with such developments.
As well as blocking people from reading *encyclopedia text*, they *failed* to actually do the thing they were claiming to do: blocking the image.
This brings up one point: there is no evidence whatsoever that they actually do the job they claim to. And there is this piece of evidence that they don't actually know how to. Hamfisted *and* incompetent.
Could you follow up with a question as to how they managed to block text and not the actual image? I'd be fascinated to hear their explanation.
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