Chinese Version of Wikinews Blocked In China

DragonFire1024 writes with this story from Wikinews that says “access to the Chinese Wikinews website has been blocked in China. Wikinews can also confirm that the English version of the website is still available in China. … Users using the social networking site called Twitter have reported that the site was “blockade[ed] today by the mainland” of China. Others, writing on the Wikimedia Foundation’s mailing list also state that the Chinese version of Wikinews is blocked in major Chinese cities such as Beijing.”

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