People are interested in editing what they are interested in, feel strongly about or are knowledgeable about, so it's not a surprise to see that there aren't much cross-region collaboration on region-specific articles. I think the same thing applies to all Wikipedias. But this still doesn't make the Chinese Wikipedia self-censoring, because of two main points:
1. On those non-region-specific controversial articles, people with different backgrounds do get into a lot of arguments... errr I mean serious discussions and collaboration about the articles. 2. And on those region-specific controversial articles, it turns out that the people that raise the fiercest objections/arguments tend to be the people from that certain region: It's true for the Mao article on ZH, and it's also true for the George W. Bush article on EN (for instance). --Lorenzarius
On 11/30/06, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
But let me ask you this -- how likely is it for Taiwan and HK-based editors to edit controversial PRC-related articles? Is there active and vigorous collaboration? Do you avoid it specifically? Are HK and Taiwan editors perhaps not interested in them? I'm still trying to get a good picture of how much cooperation there is on things that are PRC history, even though HK and Taiwan folks might react to that. This is a question to anyone on this list.