Wikipedia bans posts from Qatar
Web encyclopedia Wikipedia has inadvertently blocked people in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar from editing and contributing entries at least four times since November, computer logs from the site show.
Visitors still could read articles but they weren't able to participate - a crucial task for a collaborative encyclopedia whose core premise is to allow anyone to add, edit or even delete entries, regardless of expertise.
Wikipedia administrators had responded to an unusually high level of spam and fraudulent posts by blocking contributions from the numeric internet address tied to those posts.
