Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-10-31/China block

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[edit] Google Cache

Google has managed to cache more than a hundred of these forked pages. [1] I'm not sure how long they'll stay up, though. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs, blog) 17:32, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Google's translated version of WikiCN's front page [2] starts off with the title "Dimension guest China, based on WiKi (dimension guest) technical encyclopedia." To an English speaker, this reads like pure nonsense; however, I can tell you that this would more accurately translate to "Wiki China, based on Wikipedia," based on the Vietnamese translation of this title.

The page later seems to say:

Wiki China, from the Dopai.com, Bokee.com, and Chinalabs.com communities to you. On October 20^th, 2005, we changed our name to Wiki China.

This wiki came to the attention of "the Ministry of Education, Philosophy, and Social Sciences in 2003 when it researched an important topic: blogging technology and the way it affects research in the media and society."

I used a tool [3] to transliterate the Chinese characters into old Sino-Vietnamese words, and based my translation off of that transliteration and Google's translation. I'm not an expert at this, but my translation sure makes more sense than Google's translation alone.

 – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs, blog) 22:47, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

According to zh:Wikipedia:狀況回報, there's apparently a mirror of the Chinese Wikipedia [4] available that should be accessible to Chinese users. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs, blog) 21:30, 5 November 2005 (UTC)