Before he was recently banned from Wikipedia, Techyan was one of dozens of volunteers preparing to speak at last summer’s Wikimania, the free-knowledge movement’s annual conference. Born in China’s ...

Wikipedia has discovered that a contributor had been falsifying the history of the Qing Dynasty and the history of Russia on its Chinese-language site. An investigation by the online encyclopedia ...

“Hong Kong is not a part of China. Hong Kong is not China,” a defiant Chinese Wikipedia user from Hong Kong wrote on the main Wikipedia article for the Hong Kong Extradition Bill. Over the last two ...

Chinese Wikipedia has been blocked by the Great Firewall since yesterday. Normally, only certain “sensitive” pages are blocked, while most of the site is accessible. Shenzhen-based “williamlong” ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. It’s fair to say Beijing is on icy terms with Wikipedia. Back in 2015, Beijing deployed its Great Firewall to ...

When Yuan Mingli posted the first Chinese-language entry on Wikipedia in November 2002, he had no idea that the website was on the verge of becoming a globally influential movement. Yuan, then a ...

(Bloomberg) -- ByteDance Inc. has invested in a prominent Chinese Wikipedia-like platform, stepping up its internet search challenge to rival Baidu Inc. A unit of ByteDance, the world’s most valuable ...

A Chinese rival of Wikipedia that also lets users join groups and chat as they might on Facebook has drawn on those social elements to pull ahead of its competition. Hudong, which means “interaction” ...