China's biggest Internet search site, Baidu.com, has launched a Chinese-language encyclopedia inspired by the cooperative reference site Wikipedia, which the communist government bars China's Web surfers from seeing.
The Chinese service, which debuted in April, carries entries written by users, but warns that it will delete content about sex, terrorism and attacks on the government. Government censors blocked access last year to Wikipedia, apparently due to concern about its references to Tibet, Taiwan and other topics. The emergence of Baidu's encyclopedia reflects efforts by Chinese entrepreneurs to take advantage of conditions created by the government's efforts to simultaneously promote and control Internet use.
Green_Grass
2:48 pm on May 13, 2006 (gmt 0)
The internet will breach The Great Wall Of China....
Actually, I have seen the wall closely with these naked eyes and ..it is already breached in many places and parts of it are crumbling!
bill
12:19 am on May 14, 2006 (gmt 0)
So this a Baidu effort and not associated with Wikipedia. At first I thought that somehow the Chinese government had reached a deal with the Wikipedia people. That would have been quite significant.
Baidu has setup a very clean wiki interface. Does anyone know if they're using a particular wiki package or if they made their own?
larryhatch
9:34 am on May 15, 2006 (gmt 0)
Can somebody provide a clickable URL to the Baidu Wiki site? I couldn't find one in all this. -Larry
Thanks Woz. I'm going to try to find my one Chinese page. -Larry
redstorm
5:15 am on May 16, 2006 (gmt 0)
<quote>Does anyone know if they're using a particular wiki package or if they made their own? </quote> i think it has no association with wiki package.
larryhatch
7:39 am on May 16, 2006 (gmt 0)
I can't read the Chinese of course, but it looks more like a search engine than a Wiki to me. -Larry
bill
7:53 am on May 16, 2006 (gmt 0)
It looks wiki-ish to me, but more like a forum. If you dig down to the entries they all have the main entry and then comments. It looks like people can comment on the main entry. I didn't see tools to edit the main article like on Wikipedia, but I may not be understanding everything.
redstorm
6:11 am on May 17, 2006 (gmt 0)
I can't read the Chinese of course, but it looks more like a search engine than a Wiki to me.
Mr. Hatch, it's never to late to learn :D
It looks wiki-ish to me, but more like a forum. If you dig down to the entries they all have the main entry and then comments. It looks like people can comment on the main entry. I didn't see tools to edit the main article like on Wikipedia, but I may not be understanding everything.
Bill: you must sign in before you can edit
bill
2:47 am on May 18, 2006 (gmt 0)
Bill: you must sign in before you can edit
Thanks for the clarification redstorm. I thought I was missing something. I reviewed several entries and they all seemed to have comments at the bottom. Is the standard format to have an article and then a discussion section?
redstorm
8:38 am on May 20, 2006 (gmt 0)
Is the standard format to have an article and then a discussion section?
You are quite right, Bill; the discussion section is at the bottom of the page. You can post your comments after signning in.
bill
10:43 am on May 20, 2006 (gmt 0)
Can you edit the main article as well, or just add comments?
1984bb
11:09 am on May 20, 2006 (gmt 0)
Hmmm....the main point is does wiki will go on as an unprofitable org? or now that they have so much "authority" and so many suckers including me ,have written great articles and upload great Photos will get a BS while the big guys of wiki will get some $$$$$$ from Google if they use them as an alternative to Yahoo Travel ,something that was claiming from a dutch spam site that uses the same wiki patent that Google was interesting to buy them .... That is my question webmasters made Google the king and now are eating a BS ,will wikipedia do the same?
