[Foundation-l] Chinese wikinews in China Blocked

[Charlotte Webb]

> As we know, all wikimedia sites used to be completely blocked in mainland
> China since 2005 (temporary blocking started in 2004). When they started to
> unblock the wikimedia sites in 2006, they unblocked all the non-Chinese
> sites first and later some Chinese projects, such as Chinese Wikitionary.
> The Chinese Wikipedia is only unblocked in 2008 due to the international
> pressure before the Olympics, yet the content of the site is still censored
> and some sensitive keywords will trigger a temporary IP block lasting
> approx. 1~2 minutes.

Nah, reviewing my one edit to en.wikinews would probably earn you a
lifetime ban if you are in the PRC. Let me know if it loads. :P
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/CharlotteWebb

—C.W.