internet - Proxies still going strong

The question whether the new generations of internet users still know how to use proxies, simple tools to circumvent the online censorship, has been discussed here a few times. I belong to the first people who came online in China, after initially only academics got some access. In those days so many websites were blocked, that working on the internet was impossible without those proxies.
But censorship has become more sophisticated, not in terms what they block but what they do not block. Anecdotes suggested that the online experience was in most cases not disrupted by the censorship tools, making it for the newer generations less necessary to use proxies. That would in effect make the censorship more effective, since people would not automatically think about the censorship when they do not get a connection - like I would do.
Andrew Lih now has some powerful indications going in the other direction. Andrew has been following Wikipedia in China closely and the past events, as the popular encyclopedia first got unblocked after one year and then suddenly got blocked again.
One of his conclusions:

We’ve known for a while most college students in China are savvy enough to use proxy servers to skirt Internet blocking. It’s been thought they use proxies only on occasion, since firing up the software is such a nuisance. But it seems they may be bothering to do so when it comes to Wikipedia. That would be in sync with Wikipedia’s incredible popularity among high school and college students in the US. (Tell an American university student you’re taking away their YouTube, Myspace and Wikipedia, and they’ll likely complain the most about missing Wikipedia).

The Chinese edition of Wikipedia now is in the 2006 rankings the highest scoring online encyclopedia in China, showing that at least in this case the block is not helping the censor.