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  • WP's mission, ethic, and power structures were created in the innocent days of the internet at the start of the century. This article reveals how vulnerable the wiki communities are to the wrecking influence of state actors. Tony (talk) 03:36, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I came from the Village Pump of Chinese Wikipedia. After reading this article, I only saw one point: the leader of the Wikipedia User Group Hong Kong headed by 1233 and some of the leaders of the Wikimedia Taiwan, is not only using Chinese Wikipedia as a tool for political propaganda and ideology on Chinese Wikipedia, but also implementing ruthless suppression and libeling on editors come from Mainland China. That the appearance of this article on Wikipedia Signpost is an extremely serious insult to the free and open Wikimedia spirit. --To my distress 14:28, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • First of all, this commentary is written at my personal capacity and does not represent the official views of the Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong. (Representing the User Group) However, according to all statements and the resolution from the User Group, the User Group only expresses its wishes for a proper consultation of the bill within Hong Kong, as it adversely affects contributors (who may be targeted by the CPC) who wish to travel through the Hong Kong Airport. The User Group did not use Wikipedia as a tool for propaganda, has never done so, and does not plan to do so at the same time. The misinterpretation of the notice contents contributes to complete misunderstanding and accusations from other members of the Chinese Community.
  • (In own capacity) As one of the authors of this commentary, I can reassure that all contents are supported by facts, and can be fact-checked. Furthermore, what insults most is not this article but all attempts to block anyone expressing their own opinion. I personally, before becoming the liaison of the User Group, has brought the tug of war within the Chinese Wikipedia to Meta's RFC.
    Furthermore, the User above also disregards the fact that they are assuming all editors who are of PRC origin are connected with the Wikimedians of Mainland China working group and that Wikimedia User Group China (which is offline as stated within the article) is still recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation as a User Group. What members and supporters of Wikimedians of Mainland China should do is to not to continue their stance of all accusation of wrongdoings are attacking the Mainland Chinese community and blocks mainland editors from contributing positively to Wikipedia but try to look into any possibility of wrongdoings first before replying in a tone highly resembles the Communist Party of China. Expressing in a similar manner makes your working group another Communist Party of China, where all accusations, recommendations and error-pointing from non-Mainland contributors who seem not to be pro-China become something that attacks all mainland editors, disregarding their active contribution, and hurts the feelings of Mainland editors. And even here I still haven't counted the ruthless attacks from their mouthpiece, QiuWen (zh:WP:QW)(also the only running source of news related to the movement within the Chinese Wikipedia) against members who seemed not supporting the working group (including, but not limited to me, and also the WUGC).--1233 ( T / C） 16:02, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I must say, things in this style (attacking other members of the community) is somewhat common at the Chinese Wikipedia, particularly for community members connected to the aforementioned working group. I don't see the reason for them to stay within the community if they only speak newspeak.--1233 ( T / C） 05:44, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
To me, this has been what you guys are doing, not us. Also, I only edited the article grammar and added some missed information, so we all had a say on this. All of what we said is true and is basically a summary of the protests and what has been going on. The information given was the point of view from us and not from the User Group. Furthermore, I assume that nobody wants cross-wiki arguements, so please take your complaints to your own places. My talk page doesn't get many vistors, so feel free to try and screw me over. I'd like to see that! Thanks, Oshawott 12 ==()== Talk to me! 00:47, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Interesting, the accusations. The first thing I'd encourage is for the parties to try to find common ground at zh.WP. But perhaps the ideological differences are too great for them to consider communicating. Tony (talk) 07:52, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • It is vivid that the things described in this article are actually happened here. I would also like to point out that Mr. To my distress (User:痛心疾首) might be a sockpuppet of the global banned account User:Galaxyharrylion (appeared in this article). First of all they shared similar behaviors. To my distress seems very familiar with Wikipedia since day one he registered. In addition, To my distress was registered exactly three months and three days late after Galaxyharrylion's last edit - the CU logs expired in exactly three months - just as this article stated: "Socks are especially hard to detect due to the high proportion of editors who use VPNs to edit Wikipedia, and their knowledge of bypassing the CheckUser system." --PhiLiP (talk) 21:18, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • As a ex-WUGC, and currently an active WMC @ ZH-Wiki; a citizen of Shenzhen and a CCP member, I am delighted to observe the current chaos in Hong Kong, and expact the prospective widening gap between Shenzhen and Hong Kong in next fiscal year and future. Thanks to their night efforts in streets and subways, the HK is sinking inevitably. I am a neutral to neither support or oppose any side, despite most of my friends at Zhwiki naively hope HK returns to normal ASAP. We had disagrees inside, for sure; but HK issue was actually only a nonsignificant boring piece. Therefore, to identity the editors from China Mainland is a rude, disrespectful attempt. Most editors from China Mainland, like me, did not participate into any editor war regarding this city. The accusation of Mainland editors is not statistically significant, i.e. Checking all the 200+ WMC members' edit history, less than 5% were engaged. Unfortunately, according to this biased press, our contributions had been neglected but the identification had been highlighted and misused. Seeking for a common? Oh please let us go. Walter Grassroot |talk 03:25, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • The issue discussed at this Community view is long-term arguments within the Chinese Wikipedia. Arguments related to the bill protests is just a tip of all the issues discussed within this piece. Fact check: Although the total GDP of Shenzhen surpassed that of Hong Kong, the GDP per capita in HK is still higher than that of Shenzhen. And the youth, who did not benefit from the economical prosperity would hope to go self-destruct with those who benefit (i.e. the majority of them supporting the government and is labelled as "the silent majority"). No one is disregarding any positive contribution, but those which is destructive to the movement should be highlighted, discussed and resolved. (And even you admit that these errors exist)--1233 ( T / C） 06:08, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • All my concern @ Wikipedia is about Wikipedia. The affairs you tired to highlight, is somehow fabled target which "is destructive to the movement" by the youths' going self-destruction, i.e. suicide terrorism? Another lovely point you mentioned regarding to GDP Per Capita, since your city have a better per captia statistics, your next generation started to destruct the airport, subway and public transporation. All right, I have less idea/concern about any error existing in your city, please do not push me into your lope. Walter Grassroot |talk 23:42, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for writing this. Though the issue is not as severe as on the Chinese Wikipedia, English Wikipedia has been similarly subject to politically motivated censorship over the past several years. Admin have been ineffective at dealing with this, especially when it is done subtly. Citobun (talk) 10:06, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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