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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 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...

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 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...

Or the tone of the article. but in my experience, the pro—beijing editors are a lot more aggressive in churning out 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 th...

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 us 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.

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 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 dissent since the start of the protests in 2019. the clashes between the police and pro—democracy demonstrators ...

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 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 ...

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 wikipedia�*s current competitors in china because we are providing good information from wikipedia in china and people will have a better platform to actually write about encyclopaedia articles. the biggest thing thats preventing mainland...

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 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...

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 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 ...

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