On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
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.
There is no article [[Internet in Palestine]]. ;-( see navbox on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Israel#Other
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.
It is listed under
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_by_country#Substantial_cens...
but even that says it is unfiltered.
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.
Have you try reaching the people in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Palestine
?