In an interview with the BBC in late October 2021, globally-banned WMC member Techyan (Chinese: 闫恩铭; pinyin: Yán Ēnmíng) and 6 other users said the user group was attempting to create a "Chinese version of Wikipedia",[4] a platform that would represent Beijing's views on some political issues for people in mainland China to access without a VPN with oversight from the Chinese government and would use some of Wikipedia's content.

[6] In April 2022, the encyclopedia "Qiuwen Baike" created by WMC became open to access, and editors from Taiwan carried out cyber attacks on the site.

[7] As of February 2025, there are 5 stewards (裁决委员会, highest level of usergroup except website owner),[8] 10 suppressers (监督员),[9] 31 sysops,[10] 23 patrollers,[11] 38 senior editors,[12] 34 autoreviewers,[11] 0 checkusers,[13] 15 interface admins,[14] 1 mass message sender,[15] 1 event sponsor,[16] 12 importers (transwiki),[17] and 4 template editors.

[18] Qiuwen Baike was created by copying three-fourths of all articles from the Chinese Wikipedia.

Removals of content considered contrary to official Chinese line include the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the Xinjiang internment camps, and Falun Gong.