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Ivan Mehta @ The Next Web · 09/16/2021 09:31 EDT

Why Wikimedia banned seven Chinese based editors for ‘infiltration’

Earlier this week, in an unprecedented step, Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia, banned seven editors based out of Mainland China over “infiltration concerns.” Plus, the non-profit revoked access of 12 editors from an “unrecognized group.” The foundation investigated an unofficial group of 300 Wikipedia power users, known as Wikimedians of Mainland China (WMC). It found out that some of the group’s editors were taking unfair advantage of their privileges to  promote “the aims of China, as interp

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