Thursday, October 22, 2009
"Wkipedia is a hit in china", 2006
This article is mainly about the widespread of wikipedia throught Beijing China. In nthe past five years wikipedia has expanded through china(the chinesed language version ofcourse) after the site was banned for about a year. They have about 1,200 people who registers for the site daily in comparison to 300 and 400 daily prior to the unblocking of the site. The chinese government participates in blocking overseas websites that they thought were threatening to them.
Since october 2005 authorites have been bl;ocking both the chinese and english versions of wikipedia steadily. Criticism began to take place from some intellectuals because of the length of time that the sitge was banned. the pointed out that it "hindered the ability to add chinese perspectives to articles on the encyclopedia sites". Surprisingly last month the block on the english site was unblocked, without any type of explanation.
Since october 2005 authorites have been bl;ocking both the chinese and english versions of wikipedia steadily. Criticism began to take place from some intellectuals because of the length of time that the sitge was banned. the pointed out that it "hindered the ability to add chinese perspectives to articles on the encyclopedia sites". Surprisingly last month the block on the english site was unblocked, without any type of explanation.
