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

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro at gmail.com
Fri Jul 11 22:30:16 UTC 2008


Andrew Lih wrote:
> 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)
> 

Heh,...

1. Do we know what these sensitive keywords are?

2. Any point in munging them during the olympics?

3. Would it make any difference in the long run?

Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen





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