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Article milestones Date Process Result April 8, 2020 Guild of Copy Editors Copyedited July 26, 2020 Peer review Not reviewed
	News items involving this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the " In the news" column on June 11, 2019, June 24, 2019, October 2, 2019, December 3, 2019, and June 5, 2020.

This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations: Omer Benjakob (August 2, 2019). "On Chinese Wikipedia, a bitter battle rages to define the Hong Kong protests". Wired. Retrieved August 4, 2019. While English Wikipedia made do with one article about the protest movement and one about the bill, on Chinese Wikipedia editors rushed to open articles for each and every protest as it occurred, creating a running timeline of the movement's development. Carl Miller (October 5, 2019). "China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits". BBC News. Archived from the original on October 4, 2019. Retrieved October 5, 2019. The Hong Kong protests page had seen 65 changes in the space of a day—largely over questions of language. Were they protesters? Or rioters? Cheng Ching-Tse (5 October 2019). "Wikipedia becomes a battleground for Taiwan and China". Taiwan News. Retrieved 5 October 2019. According to UDN, the Hong Kong protest page was edited 65 times in one day, mainly on the issue of whether Hongkongers should be referred to as "rioters" or "protesters." Manas Sharma, Simon Scarr (28 October 2019). "How Hong Kong's keyboard warriors have besieged Wikipedia". Reuters. Retrieved 28 October 2019. A Reuters analysis found a seven-fold surge in edits of the Hong Kong Police Force page over the 10 months to October, compared with a year earlier. Similar spikes occurred in articles about the protests and Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam.

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This article has previously been nominated to be moved. Move logs: 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests 2019 Hong Kong protests 2019–20 Hong Kong protests 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests Discussions: RM, 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests → 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, Moved, 1 January 2020, discussion RM, 2019–20 Hong Kong protests → 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, No consensus, 2 May 2020, discussion RM, 2019–2021 Hong Kong protests → 2019–21 Hong Kong protests, Procedural close and moved back to 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, 31 December 2020, discussion RM, 2019–20 Hong Kong protests → 2019–2021 Hong Kong protests, Moved to 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, 4 April 2021, discussion RM, 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests → ?, Not moved, 2 July 2021, discussion RM, 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests → Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, Not moved, 10 August 2021, discussion Older discussions: RM, 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests → 2019 Hong Kong protests, Not moved, 10 June 2019, discussion RM, 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests → 2019 Hong Kong crisis, Not moved, 2 September 2019, discussion RM, 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests → 2019 Hong Kong protests, Moved, 4 September 2019, discussion

Section sizes Section size for 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (38 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 20,141 20,141 Names 3,037 3,037 Background 72 9,156 Direct cause 2,864 2,864 Underlying causes 6,220 6,220 Objectives 6,355 6,355 History 30 67,397 Early large-scale demonstrations 8,649 8,649 Storming of the Legislative Council and escalation 14,665 14,665 Intensification and sieges of the universities 15,205 15,205 Electoral landslide and COVID-19 5,162 5,162 Implementation of the national security law 11,088 11,088 Subsequent clampdown and exodus 12,598 12,598 Clashes between protesters and counter-protesters 17,931 17,931 Tactics and methods 4,436 37,119 Moderate group 15,951 15,951 Radical group 16,732 16,732 Online confrontations 8,505 8,505 Police misconduct 3,204 51,644 Inappropriate use of force 24,314 24,314 Questionable tactics and unprofessional behaviour 16,568 16,568 Lack of accountability 7,558 7,558 Local media coverage 17,082 17,082 Impact 12 43,526 Economy 11,468 11,468 Governance 9,697 9,697 Police's image and accountability 8,318 8,318 Society 14,031 14,031 Reactions 72 73,370 Hong Kong government 16,076 16,076 Macau government 984 984 Domestic reactions 13,819 13,819 Mainland China reactions 20,193 20,193 International reactions 22,226 22,226 See also 583 583 Notes 26 26 References 30 30 External links 2,444 2,444 Total 358,346 358,346

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There was an article from Time [1] that noted US funding of various initiatives associated with the protests. (The article's ostensible topic is the freezing of these funds by the Trump administration.) Some excerpts:

• The freeze affected several contracts—estimated by two sources with knowledge of them to be worth around $2 million—that would have directly benefited the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
• Another initiative hamstrung by the freeze was the OTF’s approximately $500,000 rapid response fund, designed to provide fast relief for civil society groups, protesters, journalists and human rights defenders who have come under digital attack. The fund is open to applicants from around the world, but has made several payouts to groups in Hong Kong since unrest began there in June 2019.
• The OTF is little-known outside the world of open source technology, but its funding has contributed to the development of secure communications tools used by protesters in Hong Kong and around the world. It was a key early funder of Signal, the encrypted messaging app of choice for many Hong Kong protesters. Between 2012 and 2016, it donated nearly $3 million to the development of the encryption protocol the app is built on.
• Assistance so far, when it has come, has come from bodies at arm’s length from the U.S. government like the OTF and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), another non-profit predominantly funded by Congress, which spent about $643,000 on Hong Kong programs in 2019.

This report was referenced in an editorial for the Hong Kong based paper SCMP which acknowledged its implications. [2] Another potentially usable source on the topic of US involvement (which I don't have access to) is the book "The Other Side of the Story: A Secret War in Hong Kong". Ham Pastrami ( talk) 00:37, 25 January 2023 (UTC) reply