Saudi Arabia and Wikipedia
June 15th, 2006
A friend who follows the Arab world closely and travels there frequently for work emailed me today to say that Saudi Arabia is blocking Wikipedia. I haven’t found independent confirmation of this, but I’ll keep digging.
Update Khaled comments to explain that it was a technical glitch over the weekend. He’s a Saudi technology blogger.
June 15th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Somehow it keeps happening on weekends (which is thursday/friday), I’m pretty sure its a mistake, it always happen. Human error or auto filter error, I will never know …
June 17th, 2006 at 1:08 am
Hello again,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ is back again, it should be noted that http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/ the arabic wikipedia (and other subdomains) weren’t blocked.