On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
There is no article [[Internet in Palestine]]. ;-( see navbox on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Israel#Other > 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. It is listed under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_by_country#Substantial_censorship but even that says it is unfiltered. > 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. Have you try reaching the people in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Palestine ? -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
