As a wordpress newbie of less than a month, I ran into this pretty chrome app called JustWriteBlog by a Chinese developer. Beside noticing this versatile developer named shinemoon after some digging, I got to know that there is a Chinese unofficial website for wordpress called wpchina.org. Unlike the relation of renren to facebook, wpchina is a site maintained by a community of Chinese users providing mainly wordpress concept and software in the language of Chinese, while respecting the origin of everything, wp, in its domain name. Apart from bridging the language gap between an enormous Chinese-only user and the world, I cannot help suspecting that the great fire wall is blocking wordpress, at least once in a while. Although it turned out that it is not blocked according to this list on Wikipedia as of 4/27/2011, there is really no guarantee that wp access in China can stand forever, especially when the Chinese user population grows. Text posts on wp are still less influential than video or photo blogs that sinisterly indicate something while not explicitly write it out. With all these reasons, wpchina arises and seems to be getting vivid.
The greatest wall of China is language and culture, which is also the most precious legacy of China. Is there really a way to balance preservation and development?
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