[Wikipedia-l] China 'eases restrictions' on Wikipedia

Tue Oct 31 11:59:05 UTC 2006

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China 'eases restrictions' on Wikipedia
20 October 2006 at 08h46

Washington - China has eased restrictions on access to the United
States-based online encyclopedia Wikipedia after blocking the site for
nearly a year, a researcher says.

Andrew Lih, a Chinese-American researcher who has worked at Columbia
University and Hong Kong University, said in his blog this week that
Beijing authorities began opening up access October 10.

Lih said the English language version of Wikipedia was "widely
accessible" while the Chinese version had "spotty access."
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