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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 tried to use their numbers to crowd me out, so my voice did not get heard. we put all of this to wikime...

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 china, teaching citizens there how to edit wikipedia. he denies misusing the platform and says that...

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 cooperation with the police, ultimately backed by beijing. but on the chinese wikipedia page of the inc...

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

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 thing is you�*re removing one side from — you�*re removing the pro—beijing voices for — fr...