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China 'eases restrictions' on Wikipedia 20 October 2006 at 08h46

Washington - China has eased restrictions on access to the United States-based online encyclopedia Wikipedia after blocking the site for nearly a year, a researcher says.

Andrew Lih, a Chinese-American researcher who has worked at Columbia University and Hong Kong University, said in his blog this week that Beijing authorities began opening up access October 10.

Lih said the English language version of Wikipedia was "widely accessible" while the Chinese version had "spotty access."