Thank you International Olympic Committee. China has unblocked the English language version of Wikipedia following pressure from the IOC to ease internet censorship.
China had previously agreed to relax its heavy-handy censorship when it was awarded the Olympic Games but it had failed to do so until now.
Wikipedia, along with BBC News, Blogspot, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and many others, were blacklisted. However, Wiki is now available in China, as is BBC.
Now I need never do proper research on anything again. What a relief.
Fear not though, it's still impossible to read up on things like the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989. And Wikipedia pages about Tibet are, naturally, off limits.
Still, it's progress. Hopefully they won't decided to reverse the decision at the end of August once the Olympic torch is passed to London.
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