It has been confirmed, as of 8AM GMT, June 4, that Wikipedians in Beijing were banned from accessing. But Wikipedia is still accessible from other parts of China. formulax On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 01:53:27 -0700 (PDT), Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

Daniel Mayer wrote: The fact that this was only applicable for Beijing suggests that this was a short term event based on their understandable paranoia about commemoration of the Tien An Men events. It is very likely that other sites received the same treatment. Some have wondered about the general permission of the zh-wikipedia to continue to be accessible in the PRC being something close to miraculous. There are times for making a fuss, but I suspect that doing so at this stage would be counterproductive if the ban in question was for anything more than a limited time. Our Chinese colleagues are best served by having an ongoing access, and I'm afraid that at this stage a fuss might only encourage China's bureaucrats to take more permanent action. Ec

Hi, Le Friday 11 June 2004 20:37, shizhao a écrit : Are you sure of that ? This looks like serious bad news. Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://www.forget-me.net/pro/ | Formations et services Linux