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It's time fof 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 it's certainly possible to tweak an entry about yourself or your company to add some "facts",

The encyclopaedia's 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, we've uncovered evidence that some of wikipedia's articles are being changed to present a particular country in a more positive light — and that's china. you remember what carl millerfound when we sent him to taiwan? yes — articles about taiwan's independence were being edited to swing more in line with china's view. although carl did point out that these views are not lies — after all, who is wikipe...

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 thing is you�*re removing one side from — you�*re removing the pro—beijing voices for — from this platform and of course, the balance is going to tilt tow...

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 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 that's preventing mainland chinese people from expressing the viewpoint of mainland china's people is the chinese government who don't allow them to e...

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�* or �*conflict�* replacing �*terror attack�*. but worse still, the edit wars seem to have taken a nasty term — there are reports of threats being made ...