[Foundation-l] Question about status of access in mainland China

Ziko van Dijk zvandijk at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 16 20:30:42 UTC 2008


Maybe WMF could install an archive for information about Wikimedia projects
blocking.
Ziko

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

2008/12/16 Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>

> Michael Snow wrote:
> > I see that the BBC reports their Chinese language site is again blocked
> > in China. They mention some other sites but nothing about Wikipedia.
> > Could anyone summarize what the current situation is for accessing
> > Wikipedia there? Especially zh.wikipedia.org, of course, but also other
> > languages.
> >
> > --Michael Snow
> >
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> Hello Michael,
>
> Wikipedia (all language versions) not blocked at the moment. There are
> keyword-blocking like earlier, with a difference: Since the begin of
> December the keyword-blocking is no more restrained to the titles of the
> articles, but also the content, which is very crazy because for example
> if you want to read the article about [[Yonghe Temple]], a tourist
> attraction in Beijing, you will get blocked because in the article the
> word Dalai Lama is used.
>
> BBC was blocked two days ago and unblocked today. Deutsche Welle is
> blocked and still blocked.
>
> Ting
>
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