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- On the afternoon of May 19, 2015, Chinese Wikipedia became inaccessible in mainland China due to an HTTP connection reset and DNS contamination of "zh.wikipedia.org". Users can get around this by modifying the local host's file or changing the DNS server and accessing the encrypted version of Wikipedia (HTTPS).
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A majority of apps and websites blocked are the result of the companies not willing to follow the Chinese government's internet regulations on data collection and privacy, user-safety, guidelines and the type of content being shared, posted or hosted. This is a list of the most notable such blocked websites in the country (except Autonomous area) .
Since April 23, 2019, the entire Wikipedia site (*.wikipedia.org) has been completely blocked in mainland China, and its home page and all language versions cannot be accessed commonly. The blocking method is DNS pollution, among which the Chinese, Japanese, and Uyghur Wikipedia also has HTTP connection reset and SNI blocking.
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Types of disputes
Individual articles can be disputed or blocked by a country for allegedly violating a range of laws from revealing the location of a secret military installation (see France below), defamation or misinformation laws (see Germany below), or a judgment that an image in an article was pornographic (see UK below).
May 31, 2021 · You can run your own IPFS node and co-host a subset of Wikipedia, store a full copy, or even follow collaborative cluster to pull in future updates automatically. It is also possible to donate co-hosting costs by pinning specific CID to a remote service.
May 2, 2017 · Despite access to Wikipedia being partly banned in mainland China, it is possible to access a limited edition of the website that's one-fifth the size of full Wikipedia. Wikipedia's own...
May 17, 2019 · The Wikimedia Foundation has determined that Wikipedia is no longer accessible in the People’s Republic of China—impacting more than 1.3 billion readers, students, professionals, researchers, and more who can no longer access this resource or share their knowledge and achievements with the world.
May 16, 2019 · Wikipedia is now completely inaccessible in China. The Chinese version of the online encyclopedia has been blocked in the country since 2015, but the BBC reported (and the Wikimedia Foundation...
