Debian Wiki

[richard.scott]

Is this Wiki still active:

https://wiki.debian.org/

It looks a bit broken, but its the only one that comes up in Google?

[roseway]

It's a wiki. Anyone can contribute to it. It's as up to date as contributors choose to make it.

[richard.scott]

It's a wiki. Anyone can contribute to it. It's as up to date as contributors choose to make it.

But its broken. Please click the link before commenting

[cra1g321]

But its broken. Please click the link before commenting

The site works fine here.

[richard.scott]

I get this:

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Forbidden

<p>You are not allowed to access this!</p>

[roseway]

It's a wiki. Anyone can contribute to it. It's as up to date as contributors choose to make it.

But its broken. Please click the link before commenting

I did. It works.

[fireExit]

Not the first one
http://osdir.com/ml/debian-www-debian/2 ... 00057.html
http://osdir.com/ml/debian-www-debian/2 ... 00110.html

[richard.scott]

That's interesting thanks...

So they are saying that VirginMedia in the UK, and Oxford University are both sources of spam as I've tried from both Home and Work.

Who can I email for help?

The pages suggest a wiki@ email address, is that @wiki.debian.org?
(I'm guessing the domain part of the email address those pages suggested.

Thanks

Rich

[fireExit]

https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/201 ... 00066.html
not necessary the ISP's but probably the IP's that you tried to use.

[dasein]

So they are saying that VirginMedia in the UK, and Oxford University are both sources of spam as I've tried from both Home and Work.

It's nowhere near that specific. The spam you see in email everyday comes from someplace, and it's not from Spam Faeries. Every insecure network on the planet could be (and probably has been and is being) used to spew spam.

The address ban might seem arbitrary, and for all I know it is. But I've been in the position of having to block a Class A network to protect servers from being overwhelmed with cruft. It's an admittedly heavy-handed approach, but sometimes heavy-handed is What Works™

[eor2004]

FYI, The Link works fine here too!

[GarryRicketson]

It's a wiki. Anyone can contribute to it. It's as up to date as contributors choose to make it.

But its broken. Please click the link before commenting

Is this Wiki still active:

https://wiki.debian.org/

It looks a bit broken, but its the only one that comes up in Google?

I read the post, and I use the same link all the time, works just fine.

So they are saying that VirginMedia in the UK, and Oxford University are both sources of spam as I've tried from both Home and Work.

No, if this is what it says:, I don't see where it says anything about virgin media, or oxford university,... Have you by any chance tried with a different computer ?

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Forbidden
<p>You are not allowed to access this!</p> 

Your computer could be infected with something that triggers the "forbidden" error.
This is a example of one that was blocked from one of the sites I manage:
(some sensitive info cut)

#: 94 @: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:03:01 -0800 Running: 0.4.10a3 / 76
Host: xx.xx.xx.xx
IP: xxxxxxxxxx
Score: 2
Violation count: 1
Why blocked: No known valid curl clients or spiders. Infected machine (UA-0002). xxxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxx).
Query:
Referer:
User Agent: Curl/PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.14 (http://github.com/shuber/curl)
Reconstructed URL: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If you do a google on the IP you are using, when you get blocked , quite often the results will show why that IP is being blocked and which data bases have it black listed.

[thanatos_incarnate]

Try using some of the proxy plug-ins that are available for any browser.

EDIT: Another alternative, if you surf from the Uni, is to use your university's VPN account if that's possible. And maybe there's a way for the wiki people to add at least your VPN as an exception (please correct me if that's not possible).