[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikizh-l] Re: Wikipedia banned in China, news from Taiwan (translated)

[Robert Scott Horning]

ZH Wikipedia wrote:

>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: shi zhao <shizhao at gmail.com>
>Date: Oct 21, 2005 10:20 PM
>Subject: [Wikizh-l] Re: Wikipedia banned in China, news from Taiwan
>(translated)
>To: Zheng Xiaoyun <zhengxiaoyun at gmail.com>
>Cc: wikizh-l at wikipedia.org
>
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>145.97.39.132:80 <http://145.97.39.132:80>
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>? 05-10-21,Zheng Xiaoyun<zhengxiaoyun at gmail.com> ??:
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>>Zheng
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>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>From: Cathy Ma <cathyma at gmail.com>
>>Date: Oct 21, 2005 6:24 PM
>>Subject: Wikipedia banned in China, news from Taiwan (translated)
>>To: Andrew Lih <alih at hku.hk>, Ying Chan <yychan at hku.hk>, Lokman Tsui
>><lokman.tsui at gmail.com>, Andrea Leung <andrea.leung at gmail.com>,
>>"isaac.mao" <isaac.mao at gmail.com>, zhengxiaoyun at gmail.com, Kenneth
>>Farrall <kfarrall at asc.upenn.edu>, Titan Deng <theodoranian at gmail.com>
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>>Thanks Titan for the source:
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>>Wikipedia was banned without forewarnning on the 19th and shocked
>>internet users.
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With the control over information that the Chinese government has, it 
doesn't really surprise me or shock me in the least. The shocking thing 
was that they premitted as much as they did. In some ways, having the 
communist government ban Wikipedia may be the best thing that could have 
happened. It will get international attention to the project, 
particularly when the international press realizes that Wikipedia is 
even in Chinese and many other languages as well. It will also stop the 
cautious attitude that editors on the Chinese Wikipedia have had so far 
to try and avoid pissing off the Chinese government, strongly affecting 
POV issues. The only worry I would see now is that the zh.wikipedia 
doesn't go too far the other way in becoming a forum for Chinese dissidents.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning