Shizhao has again made a formal request to the authority for the lift of the blockade. Not sure what's the exact reason yet. There are possibly two reasons: 1) A user called [[User:Yaohua2000]], who was once blocked by zh: for vandalism and was rejected for his apllication for admin, yesterday threatened to report Wikipedia to the government for spreading information related to Falun Gong and Taiwan Independence. We don't know if he acutally did that and it is because of his action that resulted in the blockade. Another possible cause would be the extensive coverage of the banning of another famous BBS board in mainland that was banned recently. YTHT, one of the most popular BBS boards in China was banned few weeks ago and all other BBS boards were explictly warned not to discuss this issue. But of course zh Wikipedia still has an article on this event and many former users from YTHT now joined us. This could also have exasperated some officials. I don't know if this time the ban can still be lifted, but the experience tells us that, after the ban in June, we took three months to recover. And when we finally reach the same level in June in term of daily visits, we are banned again. [[User:formulax]] On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:34:38 +0000 (UTC), shizhao <shizhao(a)gmail.com> wrote: