The have unblocked Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ My blog: http://shizhao.org twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao
[[zh:User:Shizhao]] 2013/1/4 Benjamin Chen <[email protected]> > Hi guys, > > This is an update that since this morning (local time), Chinese Wikipedia > is no longer accessible in mainland China from all major ISPs in all > regions (that I've received reports from). > > zh.wikipedia.org is now a censored URL keywords on HTTP. Meaning any > foreign domain that contains these strings will be blocked, such > asgoogle.com/?q=zh.wikipedia.org, or even microsoft.com/zh.wikipedia.org. > > Also, any users who attempts to connect to Chinese Wikipedia will get > their connection to *.wikipedia.org reset for several minutes. > > HTTPS connection is still working. All other language versions, such as > English Wikipedia are also accessible for now (but there is still keyword > censoring). > > As a bit of history, Chinese Wikipedia was blocked from 2005 to 2008. > Shortly before the 2008 Beijing Olympics in July 2008, the block was > lifted. Jimbo paid Cai Mingzhao, Vice Director of China's State Council > Information Office a visit in September that year [1] and Cai visited the > WMF office some time in 2009 (not sure of the date). Despite some > keyword-specific blocks on sensitive articles, Chinese Wikipedia had been > generally accessible until yesterday. > > As for the other projects, Chinese Wikisource has been blocked since late > 2010, and Chinese Wikinews since early 2012. > > Hope that the block this time may as well be temporary. > > [1] > http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2008/10/jimmy-wales-mee.html > > Regards, > > Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
