Hi guys,
This is an update that since this morning (local time), Chinese Wikipedia
is no longer accessible in mainland China from all major ISPs in all
regions (that I've received reports from).
zh.wikipedia.org is now a censored URL keywords on HTTP. Meaning any
foreign domain that contains these strings will be blocked, such
asgoogle.com/?q=zh.wikipedia.org, or even
microsoft.com/zh.wikipedia.org.
Also, any users who attempts to connect to Chinese Wikipedia will get
their connection to *.wikipedia.org reset for several minutes.
HTTPS connection is still working. All other language versions, such as
English Wikipedia are also accessible for now (but there is still keyword
censoring).
As a bit of history, Chinese Wikipedia was blocked from 2005 to 2008.
Shortly before the 2008 Beijing Olympics in July 2008, the block was
lifted. Jimbo paid Cai Mingzhao, Vice Director of China's State Council
Information Office a visit in September that year [1] and Cai visited the
WMF office some time in 2009 (not sure of the date). Despite some
keyword-specific blocks on sensitive articles, Chinese Wikipedia had been
generally accessible until yesterday.
As for the other projects, Chinese Wikisource has been blocked since late
2010, and Chinese Wikinews since early 2012.
Hope that the block this time may as well be temporary.
[1]
http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2008/10/jimmy-wales-mee.html
Regards,
Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]]
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