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China: Chinese wikipedia fully unblocked?

Monday, November 13th, 2006 @ 00:14 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Media

Andrew lih has the latest update on the Chinese wikipedia accessibility in Mainland China: According to many folks around China, the Chinese Wikipedia (zh.wikipedia.org) seems to be widely accessible in the last 24 hours. Previously, the English language and other Wikipedias were unblocked with still roughly 50% of folks not being able to access zh.wikipedia.org.

Other bloggers also have similar reports: William long (zh) and Kuangfeng (zh)

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[...] The news about Chinese wikipedia has been confusing. On Nov 13, it was widely accessible, on Nov 16, partial inaccessible, on Nov 17, a reblocked was confirmed and appeared more restrictive. Oiwan Lam [...]

# 2006-11-20 at 22:27 pm

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