Last week the IP-block on the Chinese wikipedia suddenly disappeared and our Wikipedia-man Andrew Lih had a fast peek at the stats. They have gone up to the roof, at least showing that the blocking sceptics (and I was one of them) have been wrong: IP-blocks do bring down the traffic quite a lot.
Now wikipedia faces new challenges, as the floods of the internet really open. Andrew Lih:
This sharp growth is certainly exciting, but it will truly test this community to absorb this volume of newbies so quickly. Get those neutral point of view and wiki markup tutorials in place.Before the lifting of the block, a quarter of the active contributors were from Hong Kong, another quarter from Taiwan. The rest were a mix from Singapore, Malaysia, US, Canada, PRC and other places. That’s going to shift in a major way, starting this week.
Keeping your fingers crossed is not going to be enough: some people will have to work really very hard. Good luck to them.
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