[Foundation-l] Question about status of access in mainland China

I see that the BBC reports their Chinese language site is again blocked in China. They mention some other sites but nothing about Wikipedia. Could anyone summarize what the current situation is for accessing Wikipedia there? Especially zh.wikipedia.org, of course, but also other languages.

Re: [Foundation-l] Question about status of access in mainland China

BBC Chinese agian unblocked.. 2008/12/17 Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net I see that the BBC reports their Chinese language site is again blocked in China. They mention some other sites but nothing about Wikipedia. Could anyone summarize what the current situation is for accessing

Re: [Foundation-l] Question about status of access in mainland China

Hi, thanks, but could you please clarify? Is it again Blocked (and is not accassible) or is it UNblocked (so you can visit it right now)? Sorry, it's a little confusing :) Thanks, Lodewijk 2008/12/16 shi zhao shiz...@gmail.com BBC Chinese agian unblocked.. 2008/12/17 Michael Snow

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

On 13 Dec 2008, at 14:02, Platonides wrote: teun spaans wrote: Many times it works well. But the procedures also irregularly goes amiss. I also received deletion messages of a pic i had uploaded with a correct license. Some wikimedian had accidently removed the license, making a bot

[Foundation-l] Yale's Access to Knowledge program

Dear folks, Yale has contacted me seeking ideas for student research projects relating to their Access to Knowledge program (it's affiliated with the Yale Information Society Project). I thought I'd pass that request on to you -- I figured many of you have some ideas about questions

Re: [Foundation-l] Yale's Access to Knowledge program

2008/12/16 Mike Godwin mgod...@wikimedia.org: Dear folks, Yale has contacted me seeking ideas for student research projects relating to their Access to Knowledge program (it's affiliated with the Yale Information Society Project). I thought I'd pass that request on to you -- I figured many

Re: [Foundation-l] Question about status of access in mainland China

Maybe WMF could install an archive for information about Wikimedia projects blocking. Ziko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Registry_of_State_Judicial_Administrations 2008/12/16 Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de Michael Snow wrote: I see that the BBC reports their Chinese language site is

[Foundation-l] Licensing update: Questions and Answers

As per earlier comments, I've posted a first set of Questions and Answers related to a possible licensing update from GFDL to CC-BY-SA as the primary content license (with GFDL retained as a secondary license) for Wikimedia Foundation projects, here:

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