Editing Wikipedia (section)

=== Chinese access ===
Access to the [[Chinese Wikipedia]] [[Internet censorship in China|has been blocked]] in [[mainland China]] since May 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Skipper|first=Ben|date=7 December 2015|title=China's government has blocked Wikipedia in its entirety again|work=International Business Times UK|url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chinas-government-has-blocked-wikipedia-its-entirety-again-1532138|url-status=live|access-date=2018-05-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503111142/https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chinas-government-has-blocked-wikipedia-its-entirety-again-1532138|archive-date=3 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Fox-Brewster|first=Thomas|date=22 May 2015|title=Wikipedia Disturbed Over Fresh China Censorship|work=Forbes|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/05/22/wikipedia-disturbed-over-fresh-china-censorship/#377839ae112a|url-status=live|access-date=2018-05-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503043534/https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/05/22/wikipedia-disturbed-over-fresh-china-censorship/#377839ae112a|archive-date=3 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=20 May 2015|title=Chinese Wikipedia Blocked by Great Firewall|url=https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/05/chinese-wikipedia-blocked-by-great-firewall/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504212406/https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/05/chinese-wikipedia-blocked-by-great-firewall/|archive-date=4 May 2017|access-date=4 May 2017|publisher=China Digital Times (CDT)}}</ref> This was done after Wikipedia started to use [[HTTPS]] encryption, which made selective censorship more difficult.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Wikimedia Foundation Turns On HTTPS By Default Across All Sites, Including Wikipedia|url=https://social.techcrunch.com/2015/06/12/the-wikimedia-foundation-turns-on-https-by-default-across-all-sites-including-wikipedia/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824001601/https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/12/the-wikimedia-foundation-turns-on-https-by-default-across-all-sites-including-wikipedia/|archive-date=24 August 2020|access-date=2020-06-03|website=TechCrunch|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2017, [[Quartz (publication)|''Quartz'']] reported that the Chinese government had begun creating an unofficial version of Wikipedia. However, unlike Wikipedia, the website's contents would only be editable by scholars from state-owned Chinese institutions. The article stated it had been approved by the [[State Council of the People's Republic of China]] in 2011.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Huang|first=Echo|title=China is making an official version of Wikipedia|url=https://qz.com/973267/china-is-making-an-official-version-of-wikipedia/|access-date=2021-06-08|website=Quartz|language=en}}</ref>