[Foundation-l] Intent to launch Chinese Wikinews

Brian brian0918 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 14:20:00 UTC 2006


Internet access in China following government censorship is becoming 
like drug access in the US following the start of the War on Drugs. For 
those willing to break the law (ie: everyone), it's becoming easier and 
easier to get access to all the possibilities.

R.O.C wrote:

>i checked http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Vote/Zh and found more
>than 10 users who are currently living in mainland. i think that
>wikipedia/wikimedia can be accessed and edited from mainland china as long
>as the user knows how to use proxies or some special browsers.
>
>-roc
>
>2006/3/8, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>:
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>>Erik Moeller wrote:
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>>>Chinese Wikinews has long met the formal requirements of a new Wikinews
>>>edition to be launched. There has now been another poll:
>>>
>>>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Vote/Zh
>>>
>>>which currently has 36 votes in favor of launching, including many
>>>Chinese Wikipedians, and only one (!) vote opposed. As per the voting
>>>rules, given more than 90% support after a week of voting, this means
>>>that the project can go ahead.
>>>
>>>Are there any objections from the Board to launching the project now? If
>>>I don't hear anything by the end of the week, I presume we can go ahead
>>>and set up the site.
>>>
>>>Erik
>>>      
>>>
>>Do it.
>>
>>Ant
>>
>>PS : could mainland chinese vote since they are blocked ?
>>(note that the answer will not change the statement above...)
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