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  • 1. Which institution conducted the report on the quality of Chinese Wikipedia articles?
A) Tsinghua University
B) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
C) Wikimedia Foundation
D) Beijing University
  • 2. According to the report, what is a primary issue with many Chinese Wikipedia articles?
A) Overly long and repetitive text
B) Excessive academic bias
C) Content incoherence and lack of detail
D) Too many high-quality images
  • 3. Why is machine translation not considered a viable solution for improving Chinese Wikipedia?
A) It is too expensive
B) It produces articles that are too long
C) It is banned by the government
D) It lacks satisfactory readability
  • 4. How do some mainland users gain the ability to edit Wikipedia despite IP blocks?
A) Through IP block exemptions granted by administrators
B) Through hacking the main server
C) By physically traveling to Hong Kong
D) By using official government-approved accounts
  • 5. What is the primary goal of the WMC according to the text?
A) To increase the number of Wikipedia contributors globally
B) To improve the translation quality of scientific articles
C) To promote Chinese language learning
D) To gain control of Wikipedia to support China's viewpoint
  • 6. Why does Baidu Baike lack worldwide credibility according to the text?
A) Because it is only available in simplified Chinese
B) Because it refuses to use user-generated content
C) Due to self-censorship and commercialization
D) Due to a lack of technical infrastructure
  • 7. Why was the Wikimedians of Mainland China (WMC) never formally recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation?
A) They were found to be using bots for editing
B) They did not have enough members
C) They refused to sign documents protecting member anonymity
D) The Foundation does not recognize regional groups
  • 8. What kind of threats have WMC editors made against Taiwanese Wikipedians?
A) Legal lawsuits
B) Financial blackmail
C) Identity theft
D) Death threats
  • 9. Which article was specifically mentioned as being subject to intense edit warring between WMC and other editors?
A) History of the Communist Party of China
B) Taiwan-China relations
C) The Great Firewall of China
D) 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests
  • 10. What action has the WMC threatened regarding editors of the Hong Kong protests article?
A) Filing a complaint with the United Nations
B) Reporting them to the Hong Kong national security police hotline
C) Doxing their real-life addresses
D) Deleting their personal accounts
  • 11. How does the anonymous Hong Kong editor describe the behavior of pro-Beijing editors compared to pro-democracy editors?
A) More focused on grammar and syntax
B) More likely to cite primary sources
C) Less active in the editing process
D) More aggressive in churning out disinformation
  • 12. What is one tactic used by pro-Beijing editors to shift the narrative on Hong Kong protest articles?
A) Removing content sympathetic to protests
B) Deleting the entire Wikipedia page
C) Adding only neutral academic sources
D) Automatically blocking all new users
  • 13. When did the Chinese Wikipedia begin providing a server-side conversion mechanism?
A) January 2000
B) April 2010
C) January 2005
D) March 2011
  • 14. How many total settings are available for users regarding character and vocabulary conversion?
A) Six
B) Four
C) Two
D) Eight
  • 15. What is the term for a pineapple in mainland China?
A) 菠蘿
B) 鳳梨
C) 菠萝
D) 黄梨
  • 16. According to the survey from 2010-2011, which region contributed the highest percentage of edits?
A) United States
B) Mainland China
C) Hong Kong
D) Taiwan
  • 17. Which written language is the Chinese Wikipedia based on?
A) Classical Chinese
B) Written vernacular Chinese
C) Shanghainese
D) Cantonese
  • 18. Which script does the Wu Wikipedia use exclusively?
A) Pe̍h-ōe-jī
B) Traditional Chinese
C) Bàng-uâ-cê
D) Simplified Chinese
  • 19. Which script does the Classical Chinese Wikipedia use exclusively?
A) Traditional Chinese
B) Simplified Chinese
C) Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
D) Pe̍h-ōe-jī
  • 20. What is used for one-time conversion of a single phrase when conversion tables are insufficient?
A) Automatic redirection
B) Page title conversion
C) Regional settings
D) Markup
  • 21. What writing system does the Min Nan Wikipedia use?
A) Simplified Chinese
B) Pe̍h-ōe-jī
C) Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
D) Bàng-uâ-cê
  • 22. What is the primary function of page title conversion?
A) Text analysis
B) Automatic page redirection
C) Grammar correction
D) Vocabulary substitution
  • 23. When was the Chinese Wikipedia created?
A) 1 May 2001
B) 11 May 2001
C) 16 September 2021
D) 11 May 2015
  • 24. Since when has the Chinese Wikipedia been blocked in mainland China?
A) September 2021
B) June 2019
C) May 2015
D) May 2001
  • 25. Which organization supports the Chinese Wikipedia project?
A) Baidu
B) Wikimedia Foundation
C) United Nations
D) Chinese Communist Party
  • 26. How many articles does the Chinese Wikipedia currently have?
A) 4.9 billion
B) 1,564,678
C) 13,379
D) 4,260,867
  • 27. How many administrators are there on the Chinese Wikipedia?
A) 5
B) 60
C) 1,564,678
D) 13,379
  • 28. When was the first article on the Chinese Wikipedia created?
A) 1 November 2002
B) 14 June 2003
C) 20 October 2003
D) 23 December 2004
  • 29. Who created the first article on the Chinese Wikipedia?
A) Ivan Zhai
B) China Computer Education
C) China Times
D) Ghyll
  • 30. When did the first automatic conversion between simplified and traditional Chinese characters start?
A) 1 November 2002
B) 20 October 2003
C) 23 December 2004
D) 14 June 2003
  • 31. Which software release introduced the conversion table for zh-sg and zh-hk?
A) MediaWiki 1.4
B) MediaWiki 2.0
C) MediaWiki 1.4.2
D) MediaWiki 1.0
  • 32. When were the first five administrators promoted?
A) 14 June 2003
B) 16 May 2004
C) 1 November 2002
D) 20 October 2003
  • 33. What is the ranking of the Chinese Wikipedia in terms of article count?
A) Twelfth-largest
B) Twentieth-largest
C) Eighth-largest
D) First-largest
  • 34. How many page views did Chinese Wikipedia have in 2016?
A) 1.5 million
B) 4.9 billion
C) 7,500
D) 3.6 million
  • 35. In what year did Chinese Wikipedia rank eighth in all-time page views?
A) 2024
B) 2013
C) 2016
D) 2026
  • 36. What was the approximate number of registered users in 2024?
A) 1.5 million
B) 13,379
C) 3.6 million
D) 4.2 million
  • 37. In the name '維基', what does the character '維' refer to?
A) Ropes or webs connecting objects
B) Circle or enclosure
C) Foundations of a building
D) A period of time
  • 38. Who wrote the sentence '海納百川,有容乃大'?
A) A Wikipedia administrator
B) A Qing official
C) Lin Zexu
D) A Taiwanese editor
  • 39. How many administrators were on the Chinese Wikipedia in 2026?
A) 63
B) 60 million
C) 9,100
D) 4
  • 40. Which term is associated exclusively with Wikimedia projects?
A) 維客
B) 海納
C) 圍紀
D) 維基
  • 41. How often is the regular meetup held in Tainan City, Taiwan?
A) Once every two days
B) Once every year
C) Once every month
D) Once every two weeks
  • 42. What is one of the alternative transcriptions of 'wiki' mentioned in the text?
A) 千仞
B) 海納百川
C) 圍紀
D) 維基百科
  • 43. When was the Eastern Min Wikipedia project started?
A) 30 September 2013
B) 10 March 2015
C) 23 June 2013
D) 30 September 2006
  • 44. What is the name of the writing system based on the Fuzhou dialect used in Eastern Min Wikipedia?
A) Foochow Romanized
B) Simplified Chinese
C) Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
D) Hagfa Pinyim
  • 45. What was the ranking of the Eastern Min Wikipedia by number of entries in November 2014?
A) 161st
B) 155th
C) 202nd
D) 287th
  • 46. What is the primary dialect used for the vernacular part of the Hakka Wikipedia?
A) Mandarin
B) Sixian dialect
C) Cantonese
D) Fuzhou dialect
  • 47. How many articles did the Hakka Wikipedia have as of September 2025?
A) 4,512
B) 1,496
C) 10,366
D) 35,210
  • 48. How many registered users did the Hakka Wikipedia have in September 2025?
A) 1,496
B) 35,210
C) 30
D) 13,485
  • 49. What writing system was the Hakka Wikipedia originally written in?
A) Hagfa Pinyim
B) Simplified Chinese characters
C) Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
D) Foochow Romanized
  • 50. On 10 March 2015, what was the Hakka Wikipedia's rank by number of articles?
A) 161st
B) 287th
C) 155th
D) 202nd
  • 51. Who introduced the Foochow Romanized writing system?
A) Local Fuzhou linguists
B) Eastern Min editors
C) The Wikimedia Foundation
D) Western missionaries
  • 52. What technology makes it difficult for censors to see which specific pages a user is viewing?
A) HTTPS links
B) Proxy servers
C) IP redirection
D) Encrypted databases
  • 53. What did users primarily use to access Wikipedia during the third block?
A) Proxy servers
B) Direct satellite links
C) Tor browser
D) VPN software
  • 54. What event was contextually linked to the unblocking of Chinese Wikipedia in July 2008?
A) A meeting of the United Nations
B) A trade agreement with the US
C) The anniversary of the founding of the PRC
D) The upcoming Olympic Games
  • 55. Which newspaper reported on the 2010 administrator controversy involving 'Shizhao'?
A) China International Publishing Group
B) BBC
C) The New York Times
D) Ming Pao
  • 56. What is the nickname for the administrator involved in the 2010 controversy?
A) Jie Ding
B) Shizhao
C) Jimmy Wales
D) Enming Yan
  • 57. Shizhao denied being a member of which group?
A) The 50 Cent Party
B) The Wikimedia Foundation
C) The Hong Kong government
D) The World Intellectual Property Organization
  • 58. What did Shizhao state he did regarding the article about the Concert For Democracy in China?
A) Deleted it immediately
B) Questioned its notability
C) Wrote it himself
D) Supported it publicly
  • 59. Who is an official from the China International Publishing Group mentioned in the text?
A) Lokman Tsui
B) Jie Ding
C) Shizhao
D) Enming Yan
  • 60. According to Enming Yan, what happens when pro-Beijing voices are removed from Wikipedia?
A) The Chinese government increases funding
B) The site is unblocked
C) The site becomes more neutral
D) The balance tilts towards anti-Beijing forces
  • 61. What did Shizhao joke about deleting?
A) The Chinese Constitution
B) Manual for Librarians
C) The 1989 protests article
D) The Hong Kong government website
  • 62. How many users had their administrator privileges removed in the 2021 action?
A) Fifty
B) Three hundred
C) Seven
D) Twelve
  • 63. Who is the Wikimedia Foundation's vice president of community resilience and sustainability?
A) Maggie Dennis
B) Katherine Maher
C) Jimmy Wales
D) None of the above
  • 64. How long did the investigation into infiltration concerns last?
A) A year
B) Three months
C) Six months
D) Two years
  • 65. Under what license is the Chinese Wikipedia released?
A) Public domain
B) GNU Free Documentation License
C) Fully copyrighted
D) Creative Commons Attribution
  • 66. Which company surpassed Baidu Baike in number of articles by October 2009?
A) Sohu
B) Hudong Wiki
C) Chinese Wikipedia
D) Google
  • 67. What is a major reason for Baidu Baike's growth mentioned in the text?
A) Volunteer professional editors
B) High academic credibility
C) Strict citation requirements
D) Widespread copyright infringement
  • 68. Who died in 2016 due to Baidu's commercialization of misinformation?
A) A Baidu administrator
B) A Chinese Wikipedia founder
C) A government official
D) Wei Zexi
  • 69. What happens to the rights of contributors on Baidu Baike and Hudong?
A) Contributors retain ownership of all content
B) Contributors share ownership with Baidu
C) Contributors forfeit all rights upon submission
D) Contributors license content under GNU
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