China has blocked all language versions of Wikipedia - Tech News Digest

Thursday 16 May 2019

China has blocked all language versions of Wikipedia

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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 confirmed) that all language versions of Wikipedia are now blocked in mainland China. 

"In late April, the Wikimedia Foundation determined that Wikipedia was no longer accessible in China. After closely analysing our internal traffic reports, we can confirm that Wikipedia is currently blocked across all language versions," Wikimedia said in a statement.  Read more...

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