If you have difficulty identifying Chinese names you can replace the Chinese names with its Pinyin form.
守望者爱孟=Shouwangzheaimeng
乌拉跨氪=Wulakuake
范=Fan
中华爱国阵线=Zhonghuaaiguozhenxian
追迹未来=Zhuijiweilai
金牌雄鹰=Jinpaixiongying
嘀嘀嘀=Dididi
TL;DR:The Chinese WP is just like English WP where everything become less iedalistic and more realistic over time. The flow and natural selection of editors made WP less free encyclopedia and more Machiavellian arena. Clashes between different ideological groups are inevitable.
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The Chinese WP missed the best opportunity to accumulate editors from China (Which has 90% of the Chinese speaking population) because the Blocking of GFW. This had lead to a proportion of editors that does not match the proportion of population in real life. Generally, the editors from China are mainly pro-communist and editors from out of China are mainly anti-communist (There are many other subdivisions of factions of but I just assume there are two for simplicity), and in the past years those two sides are in relative balance. The smaller size of Chinese community thanks to the GFW also made the Chinese bureaucracy simpler, with no ArbCom because there were too few admins.
However, with China's growth in national power in the recent years and the increase of Chinese people's confidence about their regime, plus the spread of methods to circumvent GFW, The balance between pro-communist and anti-communist in editor population would probably be no more. And this is what I believe will cause a wide range of conflict in Chinese WP in its process, like that in the case of "martyrdom" of 守望者爱孟.
守望者爱孟 is a Chinese editor from Shanghai, ideologically he is kind of more pro-communist. It is worth noting that supporting 守望者爱孟 is not the same as being pro-communist as you will see in some of the cases, and I will use terms "pro-守望者爱孟" and "pro-communist" that I feel most precise. His sometimes fierce disposition and lack in communication skills had resulted in a long-lasting controversy within the Chinese community.
On February 2014 守望者爱孟 accused an admin AddisWang for "corruption on WMF grants" and get banned for personal attack.
As I looked back in the history I also saw in March 2013 守望者爱孟 even kindly greeted AddisWang as a newcomer(https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... d=25268671). I still can't find a rational explanation to how the conflict ever started. At similar time AddisWang used to express contempt towards the toxic environment of Chinese WP almost one year before the controversy ever started:
You can find AddisWang's contribs and grant records on metawiki, which is mostly English. AddisWang is still quite active to this day, running many grants and projects. After looking into his records I find no signs of major corruption, although he did do some project that didn't end well like the Wikiquiz App project https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikiquiz. Still, any imperfections can potentially be a reason for a drama. Someone had tried to raise discussion about the factual disputes about AddisWang in May 2016, but the focus of the community soon drifted to other topics and there was no concensus.The environment of Chinese was broken by those who argue without logic, clash without rationalism, and judge without subjectivty. That kind of "wikilogic" is prevalent on WP, and whenever such conduct is exposed to light those people would just move on to other topics. And they will beat their opponents with their experience in dogfighting if anyone ever got trapped [by their logic].
Original Chinese Quote:中文维基百科的讨论环境就是被那些争论的时候“毫无逻辑”、碰壁的时候“蛮不讲理”、举证的时候“强词夺理”以及判断是否的时候“全凭主观”的人给玩坏了。所谓的“维基逻辑”横行其道，被人拆穿又绕开话题。对手一旦落于圈套，在用自己的耍无赖的经验打败对手。--AddisWang (留言) 2013年4月18日 (四) 07:59 (UTC)).
Source:https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Addi ... 6%E8%AF%AD
守望者爱孟 then accused the admin(s) for abuse and the conflict escalated even to somewhere out of WP, the ban was also extended to permaban in the process.
In an article Behind a ban of a Wikipedian and edit war on Chinese Wikipedia: (infzm.com/content/98858) Southern Weekly covered the ban of Edouardlicn (An older pro-communist guy who had been controversially banned for "sockpuppet abuse" and "disruptive behaviour" in June 2013, but people are still suspecting some of his socks pop up over time and he is exerting influence outside WP) and 守望者爱孟. Some Wikipedians expressed doubt about some claims in the report, for example the claim that 守望者爱孟 had considered reporting his issue to some people related to communist party and take further actions. Two years later while in the present conflict 乌拉跨氪 uploaded a picture(now deleted) claiming a quote from 守望者爱孟 that he "reported to the party"(Original in Chinese:已上报上级党委). But other Wikipedians doubted whether the picture is forged and/or whether the claimed quote does imply an intent to invite communist party influence from out-of-Wikipedia. After two years there is still no concensus about those factual questions, although there might be in the near future if the pro-守望者爱孟 faction grow strong enough to overcome opposition.
There was the first vote for De-adminship of 乌拉跨氪, who was involved in the ban of 守望者爱孟, in late Aug 2014(https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... 8%E6%B0%AA). The vote is instigated by User:中华爱国阵线, who is mainly a supporter of 守望者爱孟. The nominators even added some bans of the anti-communist people (like Hanteng, Chinuan12623,Wildcursive) to the rationale to bolster their claim that 乌拉跨氪 is abusive. Ironically, 2-3(which could have changed the outcome if they voted for the other side) pro-communist editors supported 守望者爱孟 two years later voted against de-adminship at that time. One of the even said :
oppose the part of the proposal relating to the ban of Hanteng，chinuan[User:Chinuan12623]and Wildcursive [an irrelevant sentence related to his conflict with another editor] No admin would be willing to work if people complain about 'abuse' and 'dictatorship' every time admin takes action".
Original Chinese quote:反对提出申请者关于对Hanteng、chinuan、Wildcursive三人的封禁质疑，另外抗议楼上那位睁眼瞎的说的“誣告的化學君才達3RR”（要不要我数给你看？）。还是那句话——“管理员一干活他们就说‘滥权’、‘独裁’，这样下去有个屁管理员敢出头啊。”)
My best guess is at that time they believed that 乌拉跨氪 pissed off anti-communist editors more than he did to 守望者爱孟, and it was better for their interest to keep 乌拉跨氪 in power.
The vote result was 30 to 35 and 乌拉跨氪 was not de-admined.
One of the instigators User:中华爱国阵线, was permabanned for "sockpuppet abuse" shortly after the vote, although the actual sock is unspecified(probably an IP?) A Checkuser stated in the appeal that the sock came from a mobile phone and 中华爱国阵线 was alleged to circumvent detection. The conflict cooled down for about one and a half years after then.
During the nearly silent one and half years supporters of 守望者爱孟 circulated claims in and out of WP that 守望者爱孟 was not a vandal but a persecuted individual who did numerous hard work in promoting and expanding the Wikipedian community. They also often emphasize ideas like"the persecution from those abusive group of people who held power in WP" "AddisWang and his cabal had voted against an admin nominee in the last minute to make sure he didn't get elected" "AddisWang is a Ningxia guy who falsely claim to be Shanghai, and he is actually persecuting the Shanghai community" etc. While some people regarded those as just revenge speech, I don't have much information about the validity or the implications of those claims. And be ware that each individual claim should be evaluated on a case-to case basis: the validity of one claim does not prove another.
In February 2016 some editors raised the issue of 守望者爱孟's ban again, they even gathered in 守望者爱孟's talk page and 守望者爱孟 himself filed an appeal. An admin Lanwi1 proposed that should admit his mistake first and declined the appeal. Supporters of 守望者爱孟 said that 守望者爱孟 had tried to admit his mistake two years ago but the admin's just won't approve it.
In April 2016 when admin and oversight 范 had made some admin actions in favor of anti-communist side, it soon become the Sarajevo of another large-scale conflict. And 范's immature response may have added to the rage of the pro-communist side. 范 was nominated for de-adminship The outcome was 46：46 and the de-adminship was unsuccessful.
Short after that de-adminship vote 范 was briefly banned for "sockpuppet abuse", the alleged sock(although not publicly stated because CUs cannot tell the exact IP address of a user) seemed to be an IP address from Guangzhou, But from my knowledge about past cases of possible impersonation, I speculate that this could be just someone else in Guangzhou, although current CU methods of simply examining IP address and useragents probably won't tell the difference. The people who worked against 范 asked for a emergency de-adminship for that "sockpuppet abuse", but the bureaucrats took no action and that proposal went dead.
Although the de-adminship of 范 was unsuccessful, the 守望者爱孟's supporters had definitely seen its growth of power. In the following months, they tried to challenge the status quo frequently.
In June 2016 Bureaucrat, Checkuser and admin Jimmy Xu permabanned two supporters of 守望者爱孟 User:追迹未来 for "personal attack on 范" and another user Galaxyharrylion for" making threats to me about 追迹未来's ban" (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... 4.E7.90.86). A few weeks after those ban were revoked by other admins on the basis of AGF and "another chance" while those two guys pledged to follow the civility policies. Galaxyharrylion had been active as a leading figure in the pro-守望者爱孟 campaign.
In August 2016 pro-守望者爱孟 guys made proposals like to limiting the ban to activities occured within Wikipedia, which if approved, will undermine part of the rationale for 守望者爱孟's ban.
In August 2016 they also managed to startup a vote for a Award for Promoting Wikipedia for 守望者爱孟, although most of his supporters didn't say much about how 守望者爱孟 promoted Wikipedia outside WP, but focused more on repeating the claims of "he is under persecution". But anyway the vote got passed. The one admin who endorsed the result even acknowledged the claim that "守望者爱孟 is under persecution" in his speech of endorsement, which had resulted in some more controversy. Albeit such controversy, it looked like they are one more step closer to revoking the ban of 守望者爱孟.
Some other minor figure's stories were also interesting: User:金牌雄鹰 had been permabanned for sockpuppet abuse in late 2015 and his appeal had been declined. His own statements suggests he might let Another user 嘀嘀嘀 used his account. But admin reviewed his case and determined there was not enough evidence for sockpuppetry and revoked his ban in July 2016. For various reasons he also joined the pro-守望者爱孟 side.
User:Hanteng was also an important and eloquent figure who disliked Edouardlicn and 守望者爱孟 and believes in "Edouardlicn and his cabal" as much as the 守望者爱孟 supporters do to "AddisWang and his cabal".
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What had I learned from those controversies on Chinese WP?
1.On Wikipedia "fact" means "the idea most people voted for", and sometimes plus endorsement of few admins. Things get complicated when the admin and the majority of common users have diffenent opinions, and even more complicated when neither side is willing to make compromise.
2.WP is not about who's right, but about who has more power. And power=number of people*number of banhammer*time. If you don't have any of those 3, your opinion would most likely be neglected.
3.Many people have the time and resolve to dig into history to find out who you are, just like I digged into the history of Chinese WP. I have already seen supporters of 守望者爱孟 dig out AddisWang's info, and I think I should take caution in the internet environment.
4.CU is not perfect, and sometime there are alternate possibilities. But you can never prove them wrong.
