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Turkey
A few hours ago reaching articles in turkish wiki such as vagina, human penis and female genitals is probably censored. http://imgur.com/sX2Ak97 in this caption same computer tries to access same article. The second one uses a proxy.
Erasure
Erasure of articles critical of politicians. Article change history was also erased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.2.44.125 (talk) 00:09, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
North Korea
Isn't Wikipedia censored in North Korea? I find it surprising this country is not mentioned here. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:59, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
- Well, North Koreans generally don't get into the Internet in North Korea, they only get domestic-only network Kwangmyong. Without Wikipedia, sure. --Atlasowa (talk) 18:08, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
China
It's not entirely true that Wikipedia is unblocked. Certain pages are unobtainable, with a mystifying ethos. For instance I could never access Tacloban. Nor Paul Samuelson I think. NB The Great Firewall of China seems to block all sites with address which contains the word 'blog'. Note too that China now seems to be employing Wikipedia to distribute its own information. See for instance Port of Tianjin governance, traffic management and law enforcement.
John of Cromer in Philippines (talk) mytime= Fri 09:30, wikitime= 01:30, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not censored
In just a minute I am going to remove the following comment from the top of the article:
- (WP:Wikipedia is not censored this slogan is just a shameless propaganda, many of wikipedia's administrators like censorship, they often used their power to control the content of the wikipedia articles, and block the dissident contents)
It turns out that I agree with the statement, but the top of this article isn't the right place for it. And, in fact, an article on Censorship of Wikipedia probably isn't the right article. There is an Censorship by Wikipedia page, but it is just a redirect to the main article about Wikipedia. I guess that the body of the Wikipedia article might be as good a place as any to put an expanded version of the comment. There is some mention of Censorship by Wikipedia there already, but it isn't very visible and is spread out in several locations and in some references. The top of this article does mention WP:Wikipedia is not censored and that might be another place to talk about this. I'm guessing that the mention of WP:Wikipedia is not censored is what caused the insertion of the comment in the first place. Other articles that talk about this include: WP:Censorship issue, Help:Censorship. There is also a semi-active WikiProject, WP:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 00:45, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Can the gentlmen expand on this hot topic? I find out that there are countries and topics, where cliques of selfcalled admins, destroy any contribution that does not follow a precise political choice of theirs - and actual use the most primitive censorship. So in some respects, Wikipedia is the contrary of democratic: once in the hands of autoritarian thinking and acting admins, there is no instance of moderation that is publically known and one can turn on to, for complaining. One turns around in the midst of the same clique of admins - who are very probably payed by some interests. Worse than in a dictatorship. What does Wikipedia DO against this?PredaMi (talk) 17:22, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
A section for consideration regarding the United States
The following are articles from reliable sources that cover suppression that took place with the knowledge and approval of the founder:
Please keep in mind that the suppression was done out of concern for human life, and also because no major news media had been reporting the situation. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoiding_harm is a rejected principle of the English encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MeropeRiddle (talk • contribs) 17:26, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Discussion at Village Pump (Proposals)
There is a proposal to enable HTTPS by default for all readers on Wikipedia at the Village Pump. This proposal directly relates to the censorship of Wikipedia by governments. Your input in the discussion would be welcome. Thank you, Tony Tan98 · talk 04:44, 21 February 2015 (UTC)