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But i understand there are other views of the world and that an encyclopaedia should present an explanation of all these various viewpoints in a fair way." the way wikipedia works is that while anyone can edit an article, higher—level administrators act as the ultimate decision—makers. they are vetted and elected by a community of writers within each country, which wikipedia says is crucial to preserving the integrity of the people�*s encyclopaedia. but yet, in recent weeks, 12 administrat...

Now on bbc news, its time for click. this week — hong kong is changing and so is its wikipedia entry, but who is responsible? bringing the vikings to life for schools. and, i mean, how many ljs do you need on a song? 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

More aggressive in droning up this information. it�*s now unfixable without external interference because they are trying to rewrite history. while these editors may use state registered e—mails and vpns to get across the internet that�*s otherwise banned in china, john says it�*s not a straightforward situation of beijing ordering the edits. there seems to be an overflow of patriotism in china and these changes are being carried out by people loyal to the communist party, but they are n...

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 tried to use their numbers to crowd me out, so my voice did not get heard. we put all of this to wikimedia, the foundation responsible for wikipedia, to askjust how long they think the largest encyclopaedia can survive when it�*s become a battleground. we come at it from a very, very hardcore ideological perspective about neutrality, about freedom of express...

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 deeper. i met someone we�*re going to call �*john�*, who continues to edit articles o...

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 mcdonell: tear gas, which is being fired. _ you can see from above behind them, the riot police have these two water cannon trucks. in hong kong, beijing has been clamping down on descent since the start of the protests in 2019. the clashes between the police and pro—democracy demonstrators may have subsided for ...

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 cooperation with the police, ultimately backed by beijing. but on the chinese wikipedia page of the incident, the second of these pictures was removed and then two days later, well over 100 further edits was made to the page. changes were being thrown back and forth between words such as �*rural factions�* to �*terrorists�...

Of wikipedia in china. it is going to be better than wikipedia�*s current competitors in china because we are providing unintelligible information from just unintelligible from wikipedia in china and people will have a better platform to actually write about encyclopaedia articles. the biggest thing thats preventing mainland chinese people from expressing the viewpoint of mainland chinas people is the chinese government who dont allow them to edit wikipedia, so the idea that we are somehow exc...

To add some "facts", the encyclopaedias community of editors and fact—checkers have been famously 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 wikipedias articles are being changed to present a particular country in a more positive light — and thats china. you remember what carl millerfound when we sent him to taiwan? yes — articles about taiwans independence were being edited to swing mo...

Now on bbc news, time for click. this week — hong kong is changing and so is its wikipedia entry, but who is responsible? bringing the vikings to life for schools. and, i mean, how many ljs do you need on a song? 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 encyclopaedia...