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I empathise with Glen's bladder.
Alex, I suppose your question is about Wikipedia. My understanding is that it is owned/controlled by a Wikipedia Foundation registered in the US as a non-profit. I don't believe there is any public or private ownership outside the Foundation itself though.
As for Chinese control, I'm sceptical. It may be that it is open to manipulation by State and Non-State actors and I'd be surprised if it was not a target for many such.
As for schools banning it -let me say that in my years designing and delivering Post-Grad courses for lawyers in different partes of Asia, I encountered levels of plagiarism that required a lot of disciplinary action against students - and very often, this behaviour involved students using cut-and-paste from Wikipedia and a whole parade of other sources to fatten out their assignments. And very, very often, apart from the sin of plagiarism, I regularly found the referenced material was just plain wrong. So I can well understand why schools have tried to supres this kind of skullduggery.
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