wikinews.org
Mostly blocked
23 of the 25 URLs we have a verdict for under wikinews.org are blocked in mainland China; 2 are not. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, poisons its DNS and returns empty responses. 1,027 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-06-14, the most recent on 2026-07-26.
The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
The site itself
http://wikinews.orgas of 2026Intermittenthttps://wikinews.orgas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.wikinews.orgas of 2026Intermittenthttps://www.wikinews.orgas of 2026BlockedPages and subdomains (21)
http://zh.wikinews.orgas of 2026Blockedhttp://en.wikinews.orgas of 2026Blockedhttp://it.wikinews.orgas of 2026Blockedhttp://de.wikinews.orgBlockedhttps://zh.wikinews.orgas of 2026Blockedhttps://en.wikinews.orgBlockedhttps://ja.wikinews.orgBlockedhttps://de.wikinews.orgas of 2026Blockedhttps://es.wikinews.orgas of 2026Blockedhttp://zh.m.wikinews.orgas of 2026Blockedhttp://en.m.wikinews.orgas of 2026Blockedhttps://zh.m.wikinews.orgBlockedhttps://en.m.wikinews.orgas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.wikinews.org/wikias of 2026Blockedhttps://fr.wikinews.org/favicon.icoBlockedhttps://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Pageas of 2026Blockedhttps://zh.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews%3A%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5Blockedhttps://zh.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&action=editBlockedhttps://zh.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3A%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&profile=default&search=%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B&fulltext=Searchas of 2026Blockedhttp://zh.wikinews.org/wiki/%E5%8F%8D%E5%B0%8D%E5%90%8C%E6%80%A7%E5%A9%9A%E5%A7%BB_%E9%95%B7%E8%80%81%E6%95%99%E6%9C%83%E9%81%AD%E6%8A%97%E8%AD%B0as of 2026Blockedhttps://zh.wikinews.org/wiki/%E5%8F%8D%E5%B0%8D%E5%90%8C%E6%80%A7%E5%A9%9A%E5%A7%BB_%E9%95%B7%E8%80%81%E6%95%99%E6%9C%83%E9%81%AD%E6%8A%97%E8%AD%B0as of 2026BlockedAbout wikinews.org and the Great Firewall
23 of the 25 URLs we have a verdict for under wikinews.org are blocked in mainland China; 2 are not. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, poisons its DNS and returns empty responses. 1,027 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-06-14, the most recent on 2026-07-26.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://wikinews.org is intermittent, https://wikinews.org is blocked. The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks wikinews.org. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
Elsewhere on the site
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Each URL's status is its verdict over the last 90 days, the same one its own page headlines.