Why is Wikipedia banned in China?

On 22 June 2004, access to Wikipedia was restored without explanation. Wikipedia was blocked again for unknown reasons in September, but only for four days. Wikipedia was blocked in China in October 2005. read more

Chinese government promote the website that is of china and ban other popular website which is of other country. Not only Wikipedia china has banned many other popular websites like Google, Blogspot, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, NYTimes and many more. coming to Wikipedia . Chinese Wikipedia was launched in May 2001. read more

Censorship of Wikipedia has occurred in several countries, including China, France, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan. Some instances are examples of widespread internet censorship in general that includes Wikipedia content. read more

As of May 2018, more than 8,000 domain names are blocked in mainland China under the country's Internet censorship policy which prevents users from accessing proscribed websites in the country. This is a list of the most notable such blocked websites in the country. read more