Chinese Wikipedia now fully unblocked?
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. (See chart)
Users of different ISP have just confirmed accessibility, including:
- Beijing China Netcom DSL
- Beijing China Unicom
- Shanghai China Telecom DSL
This is a pretty significant development, especially with Chinese Wikipedia on the cusp of reaching 100,000 articles. Let’s see if the access holds.
November 12th, 2006 22:14
[…] 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. […]
November 13th, 2006 09:41
[…] Good news for Wikipedia and China - Andrew Lih reports that the partial unblock of Wikipedia in China is now a full unblock and Wikipedia is accessible from everywhere in China. He also has graphs showing a surge of new users. Over 1000 new users are signing up for the Chinese Wikipedia per day since the block was lifted! This makes it the second fastest growing Wikipedia in terms of user registrations. Article growth is also up, and they celebrated reaching 100,000 articles this week. It’s almost four years since the English Wikipedia hit the same milestone. […]
November 13th, 2006 18:11
but the https:// secure.wikimedia.org
is blocked in the same time
November 13th, 2006 19:33
That’s correct. Quite an interesting “swap” of accessibility.
November 17th, 2006 00:33
Jimmy Lai Is Out…
I don’t believe that blogs can replace the functions of newspapers. At the most, they are only a social platform … - Jimmy Lai, Chairman of Next Media (ESWN’s translation)I believe what Jimmy believes is becoming more and more irrelevant….
September 14th, 2007 02:31
[…] On [[10 November]] [[2006]], blogger [[Andrew Lih]] reported that Chinese Wikipedia appeared to have been fully unblocked.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/11/10/chinese-wikipedia-now-fully-unblocked/| title=”Chinese Wikipedia now fully unblocked?” | accessdate=2006-12-24| publisher=andrewlih.com blog}}</ref> Lih confirmed the full unblocking several days later and offered a partial analysis of the effects based on the rate of new account creation on Chinese Wikipedia. Prior to the unblocking, 300-400 new accounts were created on Chinese Wikipedia daily. In the four days since the unblocking, the rate of new registrations more than tripled to over 1,200 daily, jumping into the second fastest growing Wikipedia after the English version. Similarly, there were 75% more articles created in the week ending on November 13th than during the week before. Coming on the same weekend that Chinese Wikipedia passed the 100,000 article mark, Lih predicted that the second 100,000 would come quickly but that the existing body of Chinese Wikipedia users would have their hands full teaching the new users and teaching them basic Wikipedia policies and norms.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/11/13/chinese-wikipedias-surge-in-growth/| title=”Chinese Wikipedia’s Surge in Growth” | accessdate=2006-12-24| publisher=andrewlih.com blog}}</ref> […]