[Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia China - censored again?

Sat Nov 18 07:54:32 UTC 2006

On 11/18/06, Shane <sfacets at gmail.com> wrote:
> China briefly unblocked access for it's citizens to Wikipedia. The
> block now seems to be re-instated.
>
> Does anyone know any more about this?

Andrew Lih's blog is the best source of information on this:
http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/

> Also I have heard that the
> Chinese Wikipedia is heavily patrolled by government officials who
> quash all attempts at writing anything that could be seen as adverse
> to the country's image. If this is the case, maybe we should be
> (trying) to do something about it?

I don't know of any evidence to back that up. It's quite possible, but
it seems like just a rumour.

Angela.