<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I did run this test again today. There is a long delay 306 ms for government.wikia.com. The data makes this message too long to be sent to the list but you can get the data from anywhere by running just-ping.com and specifying the wikia url you wish to test.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Perhaps you are right, it may be a temporary access issue. The routing seems to have too many jumps judging by the long delay in response. So it is quite possible one of the servers does go down often. However some wikias seem to connect faster. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Some wikias seem to have a significant packet loss despite fewer jumps in other locations. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The last couple of times I checked there was more than 20% packet loss in India for most wikia - on some occasions more than 50%.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Anupam</font></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Message: 5</div><div>Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:07:48 +0200</div><div>From: Jimmy Wales <<a href="mailto:jwales@wikia-inc.com">jwales@wikia-inc.com</a>></div><div>Subject: Re: [Wikia-l] wikia access across the world</div><div>To: Central Wikia Mailing List <<a href="mailto:wikia-l@wikia.com">wikia-l@wikia.com</a>></div><div>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:49D74D94.5050905@wikia-inc.com">49D74D94.5050905@wikia-inc.com</a>></div><div>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed</div><div><br></div><div>To my knowledge, we aren't blocked in India - however, there could be </div><div>access problems. Perhaps it was a one-time thing? Anupam, can you test </div><div>the same way again?</div><div><br></div><div>Angela wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><div>tOn Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Anupam Saraph <<a href="mailto:anupamsaraph@gmail.com">anupamsaraph@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><div>ping various wikias across the world from just-ping.com.</div><div>Many of them show high unavailability in India and complete</div><div>unavailability in China. Is this censorship or just net failure?</div> </blockquote><div><br></div><div>In China, we know the problem is censorship. Jimmy Wales has met with</div><div>officials there in attempts to discuss an unblock of Wikimedia and</div><div>Wikia projects. Currently I believe Wikipedia is unblocked but</div><div>Wikinews and Wikia are still blocked in mainland China. I'm not sure</div><div>what the problem is in India yet, but it's something we'll look into</div><div>as it is important to us to make sure the knowledge being created at</div><div>Wikia is globally available, both for reading and editing.</div><div><br></div><div>Angela</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Wikia Community Mailing List. </div><div><br></div><div>For information and subscriptions see </div><div><a href="http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l">http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l</a></div><div><br></div><div>Need staff help? Try <a href="http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contact">http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contact</a></div> </blockquote><div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>