The IWF ran into a storm of protest when it decided to add the article on German heavy rock band The Scorpions' Virgin Killer record to the list of URLs blocked by the vast majority of Britain's ISPs.
The filtering employed by the ISPs left millions of Britons unable to make edits on the Wikipedia site and drove thousands more to seek out the banned image.
The IWF now admits the ban was counter-productive.
"IWF's overriding objective is to minimise the availability of indecent images of children on the internet, however, on this occasion our efforts have had the opposite effect," the watchdog said in a statement.
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