Baidu Baike

Baidu Baike /ˈbdˈbkə/ (Chinese: 百度百科) is an online encyclopedia owned by Baidu, a Chinese search engine.[1] It started providing service in 2006. By August 2013 Baidu Baike had about five million articles.[2] This compares with about 700,000 articles in the Chinese Wikipedia.[2] Early in 2018 these numbers were about fifteen million and one million. In 2023, these number of articles rose to 25.5 million articles.

Available inStandard Chinese
Founded2006
Headquarters
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OwnerBaidu
Created byRobin Li
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CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional (required to edit pages)
Users+6.9 million (2019)
Current statusActive

Baidu Baike censors its content to the requirements of the Chinese government.[3][4]

References

  1. Baidu Inc. (2021-06-29). "We've launched new paid consulting services on #BaiduWiki". Twitter. Archived from the original on 2021-10-27. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Jason Q. Ng, Who’s the Boss? ...a large-scale comparison of Wikipedia China with Hudong and Baidu Baike Archived 2014-02-10 at the Wayback Machine, The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
  3. Jason Q. Ng, August 28, 2013, Who’s the Boss? The difficulties of identifying censorship in an environment with distributed oversight: a large-scale comparison of Wikipedia China with Hudong and Baidu Baike Archived 10 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
  4. Webster, Graham (2008-04-22). "Baidu's William Chang: 'No reason for China to use Wikipedia'". CNET News. Archived from the original on 5 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-22.

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