2011/6/29 WereSpielChequers <[email protected]>: > Which is a very long way of asking if anyone knows what Internet and > specifically Wikipedia access is like in Gaza and the Westbank and > whether there are any Government filters in place.
No, and i even have a source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6176691.stm (It's from 2006, but to the best of my knowledge not much changed since then.) I don't have precise details about the Palestinian Internet infrastructure, but my wild guess would be that it is more or less shared with the Israeli one. FWIW, the Twitter hashtags #paltweets and #palgeeks (!) are very frequently used. So i daresay that in terms of Internet access, Palestine is no North Korea. I don't have precise measurements of popularity of Palestinians' Wikipedia participation. It's not zero - there is a considerable number of user pages in the Arab Wikipedia with userboxes that say "this user lives in Israel" or "this user lives in Palestine"; at least some of them actually demonstrated it in their edits (i can read Arabic a little). I emailed all of them and got no reply. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
