It was celebration time in China a month ago when a longstanding block on Wikipedia was finally lifted. Yes, there had always been ways around it, such as proxy servers, Gollum and various shameless scraping sites. But it was convenient to be able to hit the real thing again without having to resort to time consuming workarounds. It was also exciting for users of Wikipedia's Chinese language site who, as Andrew Lih reported just four days ago, started signing up in much larger numbers once the block was lifted. Unfortunately, our renewed wiki-bliss didn't last long. Today nanny has dropped the hammer on Wikipedia again, and we're back to using workarounds.

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