[Foundation-l] wikimedia blocked again in China

[Andrew Lih]

On 11/17/06, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/11/17, Dariusz Siedlecki <datrio at gmail.com>:
> > On 11/17/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > shi zhao wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > > > "Q: Second question, the Chinese version of Wikipedia, which has been
> > > > censored since last October, has been unblocked last week. What's your
> > > > comment?
> > > >
> > > > A: I'm not aware of the information on the website you mentioned.
> > >
> > > What, they don't know that we exist?
> >
> > I think he ment "I'm not aware that we unblocked it". That would prove
> > my theory, that the unblocking was an accident :(.
> >
>
> It's funny that just two days ago, the largest Polish newspaper
> "Gazeta Wyborcza" has announced that Wikipedia is unblocked in China:
>
> http://gospodarka.gazeta.pl/gospodarka/1,33181,3739338.html
>
> and they have written that it is good example that "hard-talks" w
> China goverment may give good results....

Sigh.

Yes it's stories like that and from Reporters Sans Frontiers that can
be frustrating - gloating that you can press China to change if you
push hard enough is not exactly a friendly tactic. In fact, it may be
counterproductive.

-Andrew