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Ask HN: Easy Workaround for Wikipedia Censorship in Turkey
Wikipedia (in any language) is banned in Turkey, which is very annoying.
A working solution (many thanks to whoever did it!) is the so called "wikizero", where you add a "0" to each wikipedia link (just before the word "wikipedia"):
So the original:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Turkey
becomes
* https://en.0wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Turkey
Now, is it possible to make this hack working automatically on my browser? I mean, without having to add the "0" manually on each link?
- hazebooth 7y agohttps://superuser.com/questions/601574/how-do-i-redirect-a-domain-to-another-domain-locally https://superuser.com/questions/601574/how-do-i-redirect-a-d...
- oriettaxx 7y agothat would be great, but it's apparently impossible, as explained in our link, isn't it ?
- turnkeyreverse 7y agoHm interesting. There are a few options: 1) a browser extension that automagically replaces all wikipedia urls with 0wikipedia 2) a local http proxy for all requests where wikipedia is redirected to 0wikipedia 3) a local http server and a local record for wikipedia localhost and a permanent redirect to 0wikipedia
- ravenstine 7y agoYou can change your hosts file so that 0wikipedia.org points to the same IP as Wikipedia.org.
- oriettaxx 7y ago? are you sure?
- jolmg 7y agoI think they meant it backwards. Have the hosts file so that wikipedia.org points to the same IP as 0wikipedia.org.
- ravenstine 7y agoYeah, whoops.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- amagasaki 7y agoI didn't look at the source code, but there seems to be a Chrome extension that does this. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikizero/ailedophmiiimpjbelpecdinoielgkeo?hl=tr https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikizero/ailedophm...
- erkanerol 7y agoI am using wikiwand: https://www.wikiwand.com/ https://www.wikiwand.com/
- lovelearning 7y agoInstall this "Redirector" add-on for your respective browser. Then create a new redirect: EDIT: Sorry, I got the include and redirect reversed. You need to redirect censored domain to uncensored domain. Include Pattern: *.wikipedia.org/* Redirect to: $1.0wikipedia.org/$2 Pattern type: wildcard Example URL is just for testing. Use any 0wikipedia URL. I use this too, but for distraction avoidance. Any addictive website is redirected to my todo page :) [1]: https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/
- oriettaxx 7y agoZuuuper!!! It works! Unfortunately, the 'wikizero' solution works only with en.wikipedia.org, so I hadded Redirect: en.wikipedia.org/ to: $1en.0wikipedia.org/$2 Pattern type: wildcard Example: en.wikipedia.org/* → en.0wikipedia.org/* There should be a solution for other wikipedia languages, but I cannot find it
- oriettaxx 7y agoNews: as written in https://www.wikizeroo.org/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvUmV0cmF0b19FbV9CcmFuY29fRV9QcmV0bw https://www.wikizeroo.org/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcG... "Due to legal reasons, the domain name 0wikipedia.org will be closed. We will continue with new alternative domain names. 00wikipedia.org / 1wikipedia.org / 2wikipedia.org / Zwikipedia.org Example; https://tr.1wikipedia.org/wiki/Türkiye https://tr.1wikipedia.org/wiki/Türkiye
- oriettaxx 7y agoBTW: Apparently it works also with "1" and "2" and not just "0"
- oriettaxx 7y agoSince you are here: this app https://ooni.torproject.org/post/ooni-mobile-app/ https://ooni.torproject.org/post/ooni-mobile-app/ is pretty good! and is a good test to know how the country you live in is dealing with censorship (it detects 'middleboxes' in your network, too). Note that the app data is used as evidence of any censorship events that you come across, so data is collected and published (this is the main aim of this app)