Wikipedia [1], the free online encyclopedia based on collaboration and participation is now blocked in many areas in China. [2]
On the main page on Wikipedia in Chinese [3], a sentence appeared:”Some users in mainland China are finding accessing problem temporarily for unconfirmed reasons”. It also asked the users who can visit the page to report their region and ISP [4]in order to have some further judgement of the situation.
Anti pointed out that this blockage is very ironical since the “White Paper on Democracy in China [5]” had been issued by Chinese government to the public yesterday. Widao believed that the white paper [6]is the reason that leads to the blockage.
It was not the first time that Wikipedia was blocked. In June [7]and September [8] last year Wikipedia had been blocked for a period of time, both for its politically sensitive entries like the Tiananmen Square Protest in 1989 [9].