[Foundation-l] Question about status of access in mainland China

Tue Dec 16 20:09:23 UTC 2008

Michael Snow wrote:
> I see that the BBC reports their Chinese language site is again blocked 
> in China. They mention some other sites but nothing about Wikipedia. 
> Could anyone summarize what the current situation is for accessing 
> Wikipedia there? Especially zh.wikipedia.org, of course, but also other 
> languages.
>
> --Michael Snow
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Hello Michael,

Wikipedia (all language versions) not blocked at the moment. There are 
keyword-blocking like earlier, with a difference: Since the begin of 
December the keyword-blocking is no more restrained to the titles of the 
articles, but also the content, which is very crazy because for example 
if you want to read the article about [[Yonghe Temple]], a tourist 
attraction in Beijing, you will get blocked because in the article the 
word Dalai Lama is used.

BBC was blocked two days ago and unblocked today. Deutsche Welle is 
blocked and still blocked.

Ting