Nov 20 2006

Online encyclopedia offline in China

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China’s easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived.

Users reported Friday that the site was unavailable in several parts of China, barely a week after it suddenly became accessible.

It wasn’t immediately clear if user-contributed encyclopedia was unreachable due to technical glitches or because government censors had blocked the site again. The Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Information Industry did not immediately respond when contacted for comment Friday.

Beijing first blocked access to the English and Chinese versions of Wikipedia in October last year, apparently out of concern about entries touching on Tibet, Taiwan and other sensitive topics.

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