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China Unblocks Wikipedia

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the alright-go-ahead-and-read-it dept.

ZZeta writes "Even though the information on the site is still scarce, Editor & Publisher is already publishing the scoop: Apparently, Wikipedia has been unblocked in China. From the article: 'Wikipedia reported on its site that it had received word from multiple users in the country on Chinese-forums.com that the site had been restored.'"

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  1. Re:Did they really? by Kleinigkeit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yup, especially as the majority of links are to en.wikipedia.org, zh.wikipedia.org is still blocked. I just had a friend in China hit the main page of both wikis and only en. was available. Now to get her to run a search on 'Tibet'...

  2. Some quick testing.. by jarl1976 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A quick test of certain articles indicates the government has moved to more fine grained blocking. The page of some events 17 years ago did not load, but trying to load it did not temporarily block the ip(which is what happens if it just stalls on banned words). So I guess they have decided that cencoring all of wikipedia is overkill..

  3. I'm In Beijing and Here I Go... by perfectlynormalbeast · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tienamen_square

    The protests of 1989 resulted in the killing of Chinese protestors in the streets to the west of the square and adjacent areas. Some sources (Graham Earnshaw and Columbia Journal Review) claim that none died on the square itself. However, Chinese expatriates who left the country after the killings said that the numbers ended up being in the thousands. This was a combination of the hundreds killed on the spot and the "miniature" purge that followed.

    But http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_prot ests_of_1989 is blocked

    Interesting... More than I expected to be avaliable...