Jiaming Xu wrote:

Hi folks. I noticed several days ago that wikipedia is no longer accessible from mainland China (en,de,zh.....). What is really happening? There's rumor on the net that it's been blocked by the government here, but I don't know exactly what is happening. Plus, is it a malfunction of the colocation servers in Seoul, Korea where the Asian access might be directed to? And I can view wikipedia articles from A9's syndication, but sure no editing. I see from the Berlios site that it seems fine in the US and Europe, so friends from Taiwan and Hongkong could be esp helpful. Thank ou.

Yes, it's been blocked. See these posts for earlier reports:

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikizh-l/2005-October/000217.html http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-October/004464.html

I found a looking glass server inside China and used it to confirm the details. They've blocked both our Florida network and our Korea network. If you want to access Wikipedia, I suggest you proxy via 145.97.39.155, by adding the relevant entries to your host file.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_file

-- Tim Starling