China bans Wikipedia in all languages
China has extended its Wikipedia ban to cover all 300 languages used on the online encyclopedia. Beijing previously barred Internet users from viewing only the Chinese-language version, as well as pages for such terms as “Tiananmen Square massacre.” By Rachel Siegel Rachel Siegel National business reporter Email Bio Follow May 15 at 11:25 AM Wikipedia has an article listing a slew of websites blocked in mainland China.
Launched in 2012, OONI “studies the Internet” by running experiments on various networks “to understand where and how information controls are being implemented around the world,” said Arturo Filastò, a project lead with the group. OONI relies on a mobile app used by tens of thousands of volunteers who document cases of Internet censorship or other kinds of Internet interference. All the findings are published in open data sets.
The platform was English only when it launched in 2001, according to its own Wikipedia entry, but it now features articles in more than 300 languages. The English edition represents less than 15 percent of the site’s more than 40 million articles. China’s unilateral ban follows a similar one in Turkey, which blocked Wikipedia in 2017 and has had intermittent bans on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and WhatsApp. Turkish authorities said the ban went into effect after Wikipedia would not remove content that accused Turkey of giving support to terrorist groups, according to The Verge. The multi-language ban is still in effect.
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