Wikipedia fights ‘infiltration’ by Chinese groupINFORMANTS? The banned editors had been linked to a group based in China and their attempt to “infiltrate” the Web site posed a threat to the “very foundations of Wikipedia,” the foundation told BBC News. The foundation had been investigating the assault on the Chinese-language Wikipedia for almost a year, BBC News reported, citing foundation vice president of community resilience and sustainability Maggie Dennis. A woman uses the Wikipedia online encyclopedia on an iPad in Cologne, Germany, on Jan. 13. Weeks earlier, the foundation enacted security measures to protect the personal information of Wikipedia users in territories that block access to the Web site, including China, BBC News said.

Source: Taipei Times September 18, 2021 15:56 UTC