Hello all,
it seems that the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China now. We have reports from provinces and cities from very different corners of the country, that the users have direct access.
Greetings Ting
Is this a complete lifting of the ban, or are there still other ban aspects, such as some of the Great Firewall's software resetting your connection if you look up Tiananmen square or Falun Gong?
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ting Chen Sent: 31 July 2008 11:54 To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] Chinese Wikipedia in China unblocked
Hello all,
it seems that the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China now. We have reports from provinces and cities from very different corners of the country, that the users have direct access.
Greetings Ting
I'm not in China Mainland but I read yesterday IOC was to review censorship in Mainland China. In this timing it is unlike they enforce net censorship ... and Thd said (on twittter) it was not only in Beijing but in another remote district, Fujian. Fujian is rather near to Taiwan so this lifting would be nationwide, I suppose.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Is this a complete lifting of the ban, or are there still other ban aspects, such as some of the Great Firewall's software resetting your connection if you look up Tiananmen square or Falun Gong?
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ting Chen Sent: 31 July 2008 11:54 To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] Chinese Wikipedia in China unblocked
Hello all,
it seems that the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China now. We have reports from provinces and cities from very different corners of the country, that the users have direct access.
Greetings Ting -- Psssst! Schon das coole Video vom GMX MultiMessenger gesehen? Der Eine für Alle: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/messenger03
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We set up a report page since the 2nd ban in 2005 for people to share the information about the link being OK or not. http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:%E7%8B%80%E6%B3%81%E5%9B%9E%E5%A...
According to the report page, the lift of the ban is nationwide. From the east to the west users almost every province report zh.wp is unblocked. But they still couldn't look up those sensitive keywords, like Falun Gong or Tiananmen square protest. But they can reach some less sensitive keywords, like Taiwan.
THD
2008/7/31 Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org
Is this a complete lifting of the ban, or are there still other ban aspects, such as some of the Great Firewall's software resetting your connection if you look up Tiananmen square or Falun Gong?
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ting Chen Sent: 31 July 2008 11:54 To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] Chinese Wikipedia in China unblocked
Hello all,
it seems that the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China now. We have reports from provinces and cities from very different corners of the country, that the users have direct access.
Greetings Ting -- Psssst! Schon das coole Video vom GMX MultiMessenger gesehen? Der Eine für Alle: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/messenger03
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There are some characteristicas that differs this lifting from the earlier ones.
For one, it happens nationwide at a very short time. Earlier liftings needed until a week, until everywhere can access freely.
The second is that while occasionally we had a phenomenon that we cannot explain, and mostly account it for "upgrading of the GFW". In such occasions only users of single ISP can access freely, and after two or three days the site is banned again. But this time it seems that people from everywhere get free access.
Keyword blocking is still inforced.
Ting.
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Datum: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:22:55 +0200 Von: "Brian McNeil" brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org An: "'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List'" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: Re: [Foundation-l] Chinese Wikipedia in China unblocked
Is this a complete lifting of the ban, or are there still other ban aspects, such as some of the Great Firewall's software resetting your connection if you look up Tiananmen square or Falun Gong?
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ting Chen Sent: 31 July 2008 11:54 To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] Chinese Wikipedia in China unblocked
Hello all,
it seems that the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China now. We have reports from provinces and cities from very different corners of the country, that the users have direct access.
Greetings Ting -- Psssst! Schon das coole Video vom GMX MultiMessenger gesehen? Der Eine für Alle: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/messenger03
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Ting Chen wrote:
Hello all,
it seems that the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China now. We have reports from provinces and cities from very different corners of the country, that the users have direct access.
Greetings Ting
One of the top topic in the mainstream media in my country RIGHT NOW is precisely to point out that China has maintained many blocks. Foreign journalists currently in China are making a lot of noise about that.
Ant
Yes,
I checked today morning Spiegel, Le Mond and NY Times, the same topic. Thus more surprising for the lifting.
Ting
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Datum: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:59:18 +0200 Von: Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com An: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: Re: [Foundation-l] Chinese Wikipedia in China unblocked
Ting Chen wrote:
Hello all,
it seems that the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China now. We have
reports from provinces and cities from very different corners of the country, that the users have direct access.
Greetings Ting
One of the top topic in the mainstream media in my country RIGHT NOW is precisely to point out that China has maintained many blocks. Foreign journalists currently in China are making a lot of noise about that.
Ant
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Florence Devouard wrote:
Ting Chen wrote:
Hello all,
it seems that the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China now. We have reports from provinces and cities from very different corners of the country, that the users have direct access.
Greetings Ting
One of the top topic in the mainstream media in my country RIGHT NOW is precisely to point out that China has maintained many blocks. Foreign journalists currently in China are making a lot of noise about that.
Ant
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Incidentally, it was tor the inspired me to propose the English Wikipedia IP blocking exemption policy. It is Tor that the blocking exemption policy on en.wiki would permit those censored to also read and write to the English Wikipedia. I encourage other projects to adopt it as well.
All the credit goes to every contributer who helped discuss and refine policy, as it has been much refined since it started. The community on en.wiki did this (made the policy into its current form) . It is a good thing.
- -- Best, Jon
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Yeah! https://secure.wikimedia.org/ also unblocked in China.
2008/8/1 Jon scream@datascreamer.com
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Florence Devouard wrote:
Ting Chen wrote:
Hello all,
it seems that the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China now. We have
reports from provinces and cities from very different corners of the country, that the users have direct access.
Greetings Ting
One of the top topic in the mainstream media in my country RIGHT NOW is precisely to point out that China has maintained many blocks. Foreign journalists currently in China are making a lot of noise about that.
Ant
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Incidentally, it was tor the inspired me to propose the English Wikipedia IP blocking exemption policy. It is Tor that the blocking exemption policy on en.wiki would permit those censored to also read and write to the English Wikipedia. I encourage other projects to adopt it as well.
All the credit goes to every contributer who helped discuss and refine policy, as it has been much refined since it started. The community on en.wiki did this (made the policy into its current form) . It is a good thing.
Best, Jon
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