Ryan Lane wrote: >Maybe what we're doing is appeasement, but realistically we have no >political power against China. The editors from mainland China had a >discussion with some of us at Wikimania and they said that Wikipedia is >basically unknown in China because Baidupedia is what shows up in the >search results and Wikipedia does not. They actually spend a great deal of >time trying to make Wikipedia known to readers in hopes of strengthening >the editing community. If we were fully blocked again in China, it >wouldn't cause any political fuss.
Good to know, thanks. So perhaps the impact will be minimal. If stats are possible, they'd be great. I'm not sure how easy it is to measure users unable to use HTTPS. https://wikimedia.org/wiki/m:Requests_for_comment/Petition_of_HTTPS_default ^ Another data point. The Meta-Wiki version is frozen in time, while people continue to sign on the Chinese Wikipedia. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
