Chinese Wikipedia site offline
p2pnet.net News:- Both the Chinese and English-language Wikipedia sites are down.
“At the time of writing [June 14] both http://www.wikipedia.org and its Chinese version http://zh.wikipedia.org are inaccessible, and the Wikimedia Foundation has yet to comment on the reports,” says a ChinaTechNews story here.
“Lauded by Beijing as a necessary tool to raise the moral values of the Chinese people, the government has recently launched a campaign to clear violence and sexual content from the media, and comes during several politically sensitive events and anniversaries that have seen an increase in online censorship.
“Wikipedia is just one of the sites that seems to have been affected.”
A recent IDG News Service story reported that “an informal group of Chinese volunteers were building an online encyclopedia called Chinese Wikipedia to create a free source of information for Chinese Internet users,” says the ChinaTechNews story, adding it, “expressed surprise that, in light of the government’s recent crackdown on Internet content, the site was being allowed to exist”.
June 15th, 2004 at 6:45 pm
It’s up now. Just checked. (2004-6-15 15:45 pm GMT)
June 15th, 2004 at 10:43 pm
Looks like a layout change… *shrugs*
June 16th, 2004 at 6:06 am
This article is wrong. All versions of Wikipedia are online but the Great Firewall of China has blocked access to to Wikipedia for everybody in mainland China.