On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2011/6/29 WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>om>:
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_cen…
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
?
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John Vandenberg