2011/6/29 WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com:
Which is a very long way of asking if anyone knows what Internet and specifically Wikipedia access is like in Gaza and the Westbank and whether there are any Government filters in place.
No, and i even have a source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6176691.stm (It's from 2006, but to the best of my knowledge not much changed since then.)
I don't have precise details about the Palestinian Internet infrastructure, but my wild guess would be that it is more or less shared with the Israeli one. FWIW, the Twitter hashtags #paltweets and #palgeeks (!) are very frequently used. So i daresay that in terms of Internet access, Palestine is no North Korea.
I don't have precise measurements of popularity of Palestinians' Wikipedia participation. It's not zero - there is a considerable number of user pages in the Arab Wikipedia with userboxes that say "this user lives in Israel" or "this user lives in Palestine"; at least some of them actually demonstrated it in their edits (i can read Arabic a little). I emailed all of them and got no reply.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore