Talk:Melbourne International Film Festival

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Anything here?: Hack attack hits Melbourne Film Festival Jwoodger (talk) 05:02, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Chinese netizens retaliate against anything with a DDoS hack attack. Just look at the attacks on CNN and Carrefour back in 2008. --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 12:27, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

May be of interest: Regards, --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 13:02, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Festival's overtones are cited as films withdrawn - The Australian
 * Hackers attack Melbourne Film Festival website - News.com.au
 * MIFF website hacked amid Chinese film row - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
 * Chinese hack Melbourne International Film Festival website - Digital Media AUS
 * Chinese hack into film festival site - The Age
 * Chinese hack film festival site - BBC

Coordinated hacking attack on this Wikipedia article?
There have now been three deletions over the past three days of the same short, referenced account I added to this article on the screening of Rebiya Kadeer's film The 10 Conditions of Love at the recent Melbourne International Film Festival.

Interestingly, all three deletions have been done from anonymous I.P. addresses which have no record of ever having been used to contribute in any other way to the Wikipedia, and none of them gave any reasons or justifications for their deletions. Also of interest is that all three I.P.s are registered with the same internet provider company in the U.S., one from New York, and two from Washington, D.C. The last deletion was done after I specifically requested that referenced material not be deleted.

I am now going to reinsert the section again and report the incidents to the WP administrators. If it is deleted once more without prior discussion I will send all the details - not only to to the WP administrators - but also to the people who are investigating the previous hacking of the Festival website and the journalists who covered that story. Please stop this blatant vandalising! John Hill (talk) 03:41, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * This is not called hacking, this is called editing. If it were hacking, then all 10.7GBs of Wikipedia article namespace would be down from access by a DDoS attack. And according to Geolocate, all these IP addresses originate from the United States. All this "Chinese hacker" talk can be seen as paranoia; there is little evidence of such things happening. Trust me, if Chinese hackers wanted to hack this place, they would do much more than just alter one page, when there are many other undesirable pages. --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 05:51, 20 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, call it "editing" if you wish. I have no doubt that the whole page could have been deleted, but what would the point of such a blatant abuse of power? It would only draw attention to the perpetrators, and show them in a bad light, and I doubt they would want this to happen. However, removing well-referenced material with no discussion several times seems to me to be rather destructive "editing", probably better referred to as "vandalism". I call on anyone contemplating such deletions in future, whatever they are called, to discuss their reasons on this page first. Thank you. Sincerely, John Hill (talk) 09:55, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

List of winners
Where's the list of winners from? Its source isn't stated, and the official website doesn't obviously include any list.

If Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (1993) went to Melbourne for the award, she probably would have done so from Britain. But her origin is Finnish. -- Hoary (talk) 14:28, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I have not added a source, but i update the list to include the winners from 2011 and 2012.--Soulparadox (talk) 11:05, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Reorganization
I have added a History section and changed the Festival section to Overview—I think this is consistent with other pages, but also necessary, as the history of such a significant festival needs to be part of the article. Any feedback is welcome.--Soulparadox (talk) 11:06, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

New Logo
Can someone with a good understanding of the Creative Commons system and the Wikimedia project please upload the new logo for MIFF? I currently lack these skills and this would add greatly to the article and bring it up to the modern day. Puuugu (talk) 12:10, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

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