| Thank you. That's much more informative than the Wikimedia Foundation's own version of events. The textual account is incomplete, as there were statements by Iran, Russia, Canada, and Pakistan, and it was China that had the closing remarks, not the United States. It's also not quite an accurate transcript. So: It turns out that China looked up the Wikimedia Foundation on Wikipedia. It compared what Wikipedia said with what was in the Wikimedia Foundation's application documents. The Wikimedia Foundation put 124 user groups, 39 geographic chapters and 2 thematic organizations on its application form. The Chinese delegation to WIPO, deciding to trust Wikipedia in this instance, found that Wikipedia stated that the Wikimedia Foundation had 47 user groups, 41 chapters, and 1 thematic organization. * https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=维基媒体基金会&oldid=617... So the first prong of the objection was a formal way of saying "Did this organization lie on its application form?". The second prong was a vague complaint against unspecified content violating the One China Policy on "the affiliated Web site of the Foundation". This could be the Foundation wiki; Wikimedia Taiwan's own WWW site (http://wikimedia.tw/); the Chinese-language Wikipedia; the English-language Wikipedia; Meta; or even something else entirely. China didn't actually say. There's some clever chess here. For starters, the Wikimedia Foundation now has to officially state for the record that the Chinese Wikipedia does not provide up-to-date accurate information. |