Comments on: Facebook blocked, but Wkipedia Chinese version is now available in China, wtf?

By: Jhoni wijaya

Jhoni wijaya — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:57:27 +0000

ampun.... sebelumnya saya ngak tau tiba2 kok facebook saya sama sekali ngak jalan... 2 hari saya kutak katik softwarenya cari bahasa mandarin tp ngak bisa juga>>> haa...ha...a untung deh ada yg bisa... ini kalau berhasil, saya angkat 4 jempol saya 2tangan 2lg kaki.... thx

By: Milo

Milo — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:42:23 +0000

ey just thought I write some news in here :P

according to a magazine china is gonna unblock facebook in middle of august or something like that because of foreign pressure :D thank god
just hope thats true and not an advertisement that people buy that magazine xD

otherwise i must say china blocked even they're own facebook ...what is obvious ridiculous and the new FACEKOO made by chinese is total rubbish ...
some kind of immitation that is tought of usage within the country, while the original was international -_-

I'm gonna check every day of that month and be either depressed or unimaginable happy if I can connect to my family and homies again .

you must understand for a student abroad here in china to cut off facebook is the worst thing ever ,cause its the most simplest way to connect to each other ...while these months were quite a struggling T.T

By: Aw Guo

Aw Guo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:03:56 +0000

Oh, you are really a great guy, the editors of Wikipedia are all great.
Okay, thanks for your great interesting and subscribing our RSS :)
Let's keep in touch!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:45:57 +0000

Hi Lisa - Thanks for checking it out for me. Wonder if it will come back up...

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:34:41 +0000

Hi, Andrew,

Thank you for your kindness and warm heart ! I tried again this morning for times and found I could not reach the Wikipedia in Chinese while I could reach that in English. So..... you can usnderstand some situation here...

Anyway, it is not bad, since I can use it by English. hehe~~

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:35:00 +0000

Is Chinese Wikipedia still available? And if so, is the content the same as the English version? I am somewhat fluent in Chinese and an avid Wikipedia fan, and have been itching to start translating pages over to the severely lacking Chinese version, especially if there are 1.3 billion potential readers =)

What a truly fascinating site guys! I just subscribed and hope to learn a lot from following this site. Let me know if you ever need help with English, translations, or whatever.

By: Clay Smith

Clay Smith — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:53:28 +0000

Oh, no. I don't think it's dangerous. It's fascinating to me how governments work, intervening in our lives sometimes and then stepping out other times. The government of my country is frustratingly bureaucratic—it feels like things never get done. They say too many cooks spoil the broth, but I think too many politicians spoil the law-making. I will keep reading, definitely!

By: Clay Smith

Clay Smith — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:51:10 +0000

Ah, that helps me to understand. China _does_ boast the largest number of citizens, so I can see how it would be difficult to keep track of all of you. :) I'm glad Wikipedia is back up for y'all. It's pretty useful as long as you take the articles with a grain of salt—because it's edited by everyone on the internet, sometimes the information is a little inaccurate. For instance, I maintain the page that describes my college, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Christian_College, along with one of the professors who works there. Any mistakes on the page, I guess, are my fault. :)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:20:59 +0000

Welcome you Clay! I bet if you keep reading here, you can know more about China and we Chinese people....lol

You asked a good question! I am now trying to explain it by my personal understanding on it.

1, The Government is really worried about some bad dissemination, which would lead people to a wrong way. However, it is depend on some individual executors who can make good decision on what is good or bad? I don't think the executors will report to the State Council to get approval for block Wikimedia or Facebook...lol. So, some incredible or laughable things happens here and there.

2, We people in China has got more and more freedom on comment in the open since Reform and Open. Government normally not care about some individual criticism, and also can not prevent so vast comments scattered on the net. However, they can focus their censor and then block some famous and hot websites like Wikimedia and Facebook. If our ifgogo becomes well known and hot visited site, I am sure it would be checked very often. That is what I hope we people here to be careful and not to kill our small green place just by some uselessly impetuous words.

By: Aw Guo

Aw Guo — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:32:51 +0000

Yes, we are, most of use are inside China.
However, in China it's not that "dangerous" as you think. Anyway, we are all brave guys :)
So, please support us, we need your support!