[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikinews-l] Chinese Wikinews: board actionrequired

Fri Apr 15 23:46:12 UTC 2005

They have many tools in their drawer, some are URL-based, some domain based.

URL-filtering is a "standing" filter on everything being passed
around, but they still do hone in on specific domains to filter as
well.

-Andrew

On 4/16/05, Ilya Haykinson <haykinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/15/05, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/15/05, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe it could be a new Wikicities entry?
> >
> > If the main objection to starting Chinese Wikinews is that it could
> > lead to Wikipedia being blocked, then I'm not too sure it would be
> > welcome at Wikicities either, since there are already four Chinese
> > language wikis there which would be subjected to this risk of
> > blocking.
> 
> For what it's worth-- a recent Associated Press article
> (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7501488/) mentions that China seems to
> filter on keyword and not domain, these days.
> 
> -ilya
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