Talk:October 2005 Chinese Wikipedia block effects on edit count

Chinese-language Wikipedia presents different view of history

1. November 29th, 2006, International Herald Tribune Asia-Pacific's article: Chinese-language Wikipedia presents different view of history :"on sensitive questions of China's modern history or on hot-button issues, the Chinese version diverges so dramatically from its English counterpart that it sometimes reads as if it were approved by the censors themselves."

2. November 30th, 2006, CBS published an online article named: Is Wikipedia China Really Wikipedia?

3. On December 1, 2006, The New York Times published another report by Howard W. French, titled as "Wikipedia lays bare two versions of China's past."

"Some say the object should be to spread reliable information as widely as possible, and that, in any case, self-censorship is pointless because the government still frequently blocks access to Wikipedia for most Chinese Internet users. 'There is a lot of confusion about whether they should obey the neutral point of view or offer some compromises to the government,' said Isaac Mao, a well-known Chinese blogger and user of the encyclopedia. 'To the local Wikipedians, the first objective is to make it well known among Chinese, to get people to understand the principles of Wikipedia step by step, and not to get the thing blocked by the government."

And "the articles are already pre-censored by party-leaning (Chinese wikipedia) moderators and users." [1]