Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that was founded in January 15th, 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. It has over 60 million content pages written in over 300 language editions.
Censorship[]
This map show the Availability of Wikipedia
By country[]
- China (Mainland; all languages versions)
- Belarus (Russian and the Belarusian languages edition)
- Iran (Wikipedia and Wikinews)
- North Korea
- Myanmar (Same as China. Since 15 February 2021, All languages edition)
- Pakistan (Some all languages versions)
- Russia (partially blocked)
- Saudi Arabia (Partially on specific pages)
- Syria (only on Arabic language edition)
- Tunisia (all editions during 23 - 27 November 2006)
- Turkey (2014 - 2015 (partially) 2017 - 2020 (full)
- United Kingdom (in December 2008 the internet watchdog blocked an article about Virgin Killer due to the album cover image used in it)
- Uzbekistan (2008 - 2009 (all versions) 2012 (Uzbek language edition)
- Venezuela (all editions during 12 - 18 January 2019)
External links[]
- Censorship of Wikipedia at Wikipedia