[Foundation-l] Wikipedia still partly blocked on mainland China

[Andrew Lih]

Hi Oscar,

It's pretty much well known to folks using the Internet in China that
any site, not just Wikipedia, is subject to blocking if the page
contains sensitive keywords, so not sure there is much WP community
can do other than to just chug along. At least this is a lot better
than just last year when it was all blocked

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)


On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 4:01 AM, oscar van dillen
<oscarvandillen at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Ting Chen <Wing.Philopp at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello community,
>>
>> in the last week we had different reports about the link from mainland
>> China about accessability of Wikipedia. Some reported they can access
>> Wikipedia, some not, the reports may from the same city. The censorship of
>> keywords are still on. By people who can access directly, if you key in a
>> keyword, you would no more able to access Wikipedia for a few seconds to a
>> few minutes.
>>
>> A television reporter from Hongkong said although the IOC said that at the
>> reporters center one would be able to access without any censorship, the
>> reporter showd in television that she can indeed call the main page of
>> english Wikipedia, but as soon as she type in a keyword, the connection is
>> broken.
>>
>> Here is the news report:
>> http://news.tvb.com/20080708.php?video=http://vdo.tvb.com/n/630pm_news/20080708_03.mp4. The demonstration happens at about 75% to 80% of the report.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Ting.
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>
> thank you ting!
>
> i watched the item and saw wikipedia.org and the *blip* twice it goes away
> when anything is clicked.
> what can we do?
> would it be possible to consider adding a notice on (at least)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page warning readers about this
> possibility during the olympic games?
>
> all the best,
> oscar
>
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