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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 wikipedia�*s current competitors in china because we are providing information from just ...from wikiped...

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 rover to collect lunar soil containing oxides. separate equipment will be used to try and extract o...

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 famous 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 ...

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 can't even conceive of the idea of neutrality is just completely false. so many people are able to say "ok, here's 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, high...

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 wikipedia's governing body has suspended several pro—beijing editors for abusing the platform. so carl and danny have teamed up to ask whether wikipedia's 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 h...