[Wikipedia-l] China ban confirmed

Sun Jun 13 20:40:52 UTC 2004

NatKrause emailed me on Sunday morning to ask if it was just his
connection.  I confirmed the news from here from another part
of China.

Nat suggests the ban has been in place since early June 9 or late
June 8, China time.  If you look at his and my user histories
(except for my proxy login yesterday) it should narrow down the
timeframe.

Yesterday I posted the news to Current Events but it was removed
due to being 'unconfirmed'.

Please consider this news confirmed.

I don't think there's any doubt now.

The ban affects all languages, and has been in place for at least
three days, by Nat's suggestion possibly five.

Can someone please check out our user histories and figure out
the likely time period for the ban, re-instate the news on
'Current Events' and the 'China internet censorship' article.

AFAIK none of us are in Beijing.

- Pratyeka
   Administrator, English Wikipedia