SubscribeBaidu Baike: A Baidu’s Wikipedia
Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU), the biggest rival of Google in China, is planning a new service called Baidu Baike (百度百科, Baike is the pinyin for encyclopedia in Chinese), which is a wikipedia-like encyclopedia service.
The website of Baidu Baike has been available serveral weeks ago, but the service isn’t open. Today, more details of the service is disclosed from its faq(via Pose Show).
Baidu Baike allows registered users to create or edit any items in this encyclopedia, but all the new items and modification are obliged to be approved by moderators before they are published publicly. As wikipedia, users can edit any existing items and compare the previous version history.
The editors(users) of Baidu Baike are allowed to set tag for each item, but only limited to five tags per item. And the content of each item is limited to less than 20 thousand words.
Wikipedia is still blocked in China mainland. Baidu Baike is the latest company to China’s collaborative encyclopedia market without that powerful competitor. But I still hope Wikipedia can be accessed in China some day soon.
Update: Baidu Baike has launched today.
Update2: Wikipedia has the item on Baidu Baike.
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you can visit here to read baike’s FAQ:
http://news.chinabyte.com/275/2375275_1.shtml
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