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Those administrators that were elected fair and square, even years ago or decades ago, they were elected by the community. from yan�*s perspective wikipedia is still missing the beijing viewpoint, so he is setting up an alternative to wikipedia in china — albeit one that will be censored. we are going to do — basically use all wikipedia�*s content — chinese wikipedia�*s content — and we build a mirror site, we build a fort of wikipedia in china. it is going to be better than wikipe...

To edit wikipedia, so the idea that we are somehow excluding china is absurd — we welcome with open arms our editors from china. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that the us became the world�*s largest bitcoin miner after regulations banning the practice have taken effect in china. defence company ghost robotics added an assault rifle to a robot dog. and australia�*s space agency announced its first mission to the moon. it will collaborate with nasa on building a 20kg...

For many of us, wikipedia embodies the true spirit of the internet — an enormous source of information created, edited and policed by volunteers around the world. and while its certainly possible to tweak an entry about yourself or your company to add some "facts", the encyclopaedias community of editors and fact—checkers have been famous hot on dragging you back to earth should you big yourself up too much. hmm. but over the last couple of years, weve uncovered evidence that some of wikiped...

Towards the anti—beijing forces within wikipedia. as it turns out — and i have deep experience talking to people all over the world and meeting wikimedians — the idea that people in china, for example, are so brainwashed that they cant even conceive of the idea of neutrality is just completely false. so many people are able to say "ok, heres my view of the world, but i understand there are other views of the world and that an encyclopaedia should present an explanation of all these various...

Populous country in the world? well, now, a click investigation has found evidence that wikipedia articles about hong kong are also being changed to be more pro—china, and the situation has escalated to the point where wikipedias governing body has suspended several pro—beijing editors for abusing the platform. so carl and danny have teamed up to ask whether wikipedias open knowledge goals are really compatible with a world where different countries have different views on the truth. stephen...

And in contrast tojohn in hong kong, there are others continuing their work editing wikipedia articles both in english and in chinese, but importantly from the safety of another country. �*dave�* lives in britain but as a pro—democracy editor, he fears for his family and friends back home, so he spoke to us anonymously. when i started doing my edits, pro—beijing editors were ganging up to undo my edits. when i took my concerns to a higher level in wikipedia, the pro—beijing editors tri...

To that no matter what. wikipedia�*s global. wikipedia is not localised to particular countries. as soon as we identify someone who is not behaving appropriately, wikipedia is not localised to particular countries. as soon as we identify someone who is not behaving appropriately, we ban them, so it�*s quite simple. and that is exactly what wikipedia did last month when it banned seven pro—beijing editors. we tracked down yan, one of them. he lives abroad now, but used to organise events in...

The narrative still continues. furious edit wars have been raging behind the scenes on wikipedia between pro—democracy and pro—beijing points of view. our team of investigators have spent weeks looking into these edits, mostly in chinese languages but also some in english. this article is about the yuen long attack in 2019 which saw about 100 men wearing white shirts attacking people in a transport station. there were allegations that these men both had triad connections but were also in coo...

To be pro—democracy edits. messages on private chat channels were designed to strike fear which led to seven pro—beijing editors being banned from the site, some for the threatening messages and some accused of propagandising in the chinese narrative. these are edits that usually look at the event from a western prism and what chinese editors deem biased. but to get a sense ofjust how real the situation is on the ground right now, we asked our bbc hong kong correspondent danny vincent to dig...

We tracked down yan, one of them. he lives abroad now, but used to organise events in china, teaching citizens there how to edit wikipedia. he denies misusing the platform and says that the removal of active pro—beijing editors is detrimental to the neutrality of wikipedia as a whole. wikipedia, especially chinese wikipedia, is a balance that anti—beijing forces and the pro—beijing forces must maintain a balance and people agree on a compromise in order for the project to proceed. and the ...