It urged the government of Pakistan to “join the commitment to knowledge as a human right and immediately restore access to @Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects so that the people of Pakistan can continue to acquire and share knowledge with the world.”
In Pakistan, the English Wikipedia receives over 50 million page views per month, followed by the Urdu and Russian Wikipedias. Pakistan also has a large and engaged community of editors contributing historical and educational material.
Commenting on the development, digital rights activist Usama Khilji criticized the authorities for blocking the information portal, reported Geo News.
“Wikipedia, the world’s largest encyclopedia, appears to be blocked in Pakistan by @PTAofficialpk,” Khilji tweeted.
Khilji, director of Bolo Bhi, an advocacy platform for digital rights, said the courts and regulator should realize that Wikipedia is a crowd-sourced platform, where anyone can edit articles, which they can block the entire website. can instead of doing.