[Wikia-l] wikia access across the world

[Jimmy Wales]

To my knowledge, we aren't blocked in India - however, there could be 
access problems.  Perhaps it was a one-time thing?  Anupam, can you test 
the same way again?

Angela wrote:
> tOn Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Anupam Saraph <anupamsaraph at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ping various wikias across the world from just-ping.com.
>> Many of them show high unavailability in India and complete
>> unavailability in China. Is this censorship or just net failure?
> 
> In China, we know the problem  is censorship. Jimmy Wales has met with
> officials there in attempts to discuss an unblock of Wikimedia and
> Wikia projects. Currently I believe Wikipedia is unblocked but
> Wikinews and Wikia are still blocked in mainland China. I'm not sure
> what the problem is in India yet, but it's something we'll look into
> as it is important to us to make sure the knowledge being created at
> Wikia is globally available, both for reading and editing.
> 
> Angela
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