Based on a mostly unscientific calculation...
Of the 33 zhwp editors with the most edits over the last 30 days, 51.5% (17) were primarily users of Traditional Chinese.
In total, these 33 people have made 16570 edits over the last 30 days. Percentage of edits made by primary TC users was 45.0% (7466).
I never did such a check before the blocking of Wikimedia in China, but I'm guessing percentages were quite different.
A more specific breakdown based on current geographical location:
42.4% (14) were in the PRC; 24.2% (8) were Taiwanese; 21.2% (7) were Hong Kongers; 09.1% (3) were Canadians; 03.0% (1) was in Germany.
All of the users in PRC and Germany were users of Simplified. All users in Taiwan and HK were users of Traditional. 2 users in Canada were Traditional, 1 simplified.
Geographical breakdown of edits: 50.6% (8379) were from Mainlanders; 21.7% (3594) were from Hong Kongers; 18.0% (2979) were from Taiwanese; 06.4% (1065) were from Canada; -- 05.4% (894) were from Traditional users in Canada; (83.8% of Canadian edits) -- 01.0% (172) were from Simplified users in Canada; (16.2% of Canadian edits) 03.3% (553) were from Germany.
My guess is that pre-block, it was much more concentrated on Simplified users and users from the Mainland.
Cheers Mark
On 22/11/05, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/22/05, Walter van Kalken walter@vankalken.net wrote:
I will send it again as I have a feeling I am being ignored
As I was told that we shouldn't do anything so the Chinese wikipedia would get unblocked I am curious ...... is it still blocked? If so I feel we should change tactics.
A letter was sent by Wikipedian Shizhao in Beijing to the relevant ISP to request the site to be unblocked.
You might also find this recent post from Jimbo interesting.
The argument that I put forward in my talk in Tunis at the World Summit on the Information Society can be summarized as follows:
- Wikipedia is neither critical nor supportive of the Chinese
government. We are not a site for dissidents nor for government supporters. We are neutral. NPOV is non-negotiable. It is impossible to portray Wikipedia as anti-Chinese government unless the Chinese government wants to argue that neutral information is anti-Chinese government, and I don't think that's what they intend to say at all.
- It isn't *just* that Chinese people cannot read any of Wikipedia,
most of which is not about political or sensitive topics at all. It is that Chinese people are unable to *express* their views and culture in the Chinese Wikipedia or English Wikipedia or anywhere else, so long as Wikipedia is blocked. Since, I am told, the Chinese wikipedians tend to have more of a "mainland" view of things, as compared to Chinese living in Taiwan or Hong Kong, the ironic effect of the Chinese censorship is to censor the mainland perspective on world affairs.
It is fine to criticize the Chinese government for censorship of criticism. But my argument was not about that at all, since we are not critics of the Chinese government. My argument was that censoring Wikipedia in China is ironically censoring *the rest of the world* from hearing the voice of the Chinese people.
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