By 苏剑林 | May 30, 2015
The domain for the Chinese Wikipedia, zh.wikipedia.org, was subjected to keyword filtering and DNS poisoning on May 19th. Currently, Chinese Wikipedia is inaccessible from within China, and its domain cannot resolve to the correct IP address. However, the English Wikipedia remains unaffected for now and can be accessed normally.
From "Moonlight Blog": http://www.williamlong.info/archives/4240.html
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First Google was blocked, and now it's Wikipedia's turn. Of course, this isn't the first time Wikipedia has been blocked, and I imagine it won't be the last. To be honest, before this, I didn't even know what "DNS poisoning" was. I feel that my current skills in circumvention and using proxies are all the result of us commoners being forced by our Great Empire to find ways around the blocking of these excellent websites.
I really want to vent: how are people in academia supposed to survive? Can Baidu Baike—which is essentially isomorphic to trash—really satisfy our needs? Does even a single person in the department responsible for the blocking actually do academic work? (Apologies, I got a bit excited and lost my composure.)
Fortunately, the "Celestial Empire" has been somewhat merciful; the method of blocking Wikipedia is far less severe than the blocking of Google. As long as we use DNSCrypt to encrypt our DNS, we can access the HTTPS version of the site. The usage tutorial is quite simple—essentially, once it's installed, it works directly; there isn't much of a "tutorial" needed.
DNSCrypt: http://www.opendns.com/about/innovations/dnscrypt/
Chinese Wikipedia: https://zh.wikipedia.org
Let's Wiki together.