中文维基百科
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This page is severely outdated; most contents describe situations prior to 2010 or so.
Facts
Started: May 2001; content in Chinese added since October 2002
Current size: 1,419,608 articles
总编辑: 82,368,021
活跃用户; 7,460 in the past month
- 强项
- Multiple writing systems for simplified/traditional Chinese (see below)
- Popular culture of Greater China
- Retractable sidebar for legacy Vector skin enabled for all users
- Areas of weakness
- Blocked in the People's Republic of China (see Wikimedia projects blocks)
- Due to the cultural difference and the difference in translation among PRC, HK, TW and other communities, there are often disputes and edit conflicts, especially for political articles. Thus, the time consuming process of dispute resolution and consensus building is required.
- Absence of software robots for vandal fighting.
- Most users good at translation do not have sufficient time, and those who have sufficient time are weak in translation. As a result, many articles are left partially translated.
- Who is the competitor?
- Online
- Baidu Baike (百度百科)
- Britannica Online (大英在线)
- Wordpedia (智慧藏百科全书网)
- Yahoo! Answers (雅虎知识堂 / Yahoo!奇摩知识 / 雅虎知识+)
- various websites (especially some mirror sites) using content from the Chinese Wikipedia without attribution
- Print
- Encyclopedia of China (中国大百科全书)
- Taipedia (台湾大百科全书 | Grand Taiwan Encyclopedia)
Prominent milestones/events
- Blocked and unblocked by the People's Republic of China
- January 2005 - new Chinese mapping software
- August 2006 - First ever Chinese Wikimedia conference in Hong Kong
- What has its impact been?
- Cooperation among Taiwan, HK and PRC users, has created better understanding of respective viewpoints.
Features
- What language features are challenging?
- At least two main writing systems exist - 繁简中文 Until January 2005, zh.wp was a mix of articles of both types depending on the origin of the article creator/editors. User:Mountain helped create a generic automated mapping system which has helped other languages as well, such as Serbian. See the article: Automatic conversion between simplified and traditional Chinese
- What would surprise the outside reader about the community?
- Even though it is generally blocked in the PRC, a significant number of core contributors are able to use proxy software to get to Wikipedia.
- Community makeup - one quarter from Hong Kong, one quarter from Taiwan, and the rest smaller numbers from China, US, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and other locations. (As of end of 2006, see CWMC 2006)
- Chapters
- 台湾维基媒体协会 (existing)
- 香港维基媒体协会 (dissolved at 1 Feb 2017)
- 澳门维基媒体协会 (dissolved in 2017)
- 中国大陆维基媒体协会 (ideas)
- 用户组
- 中国维基人用户组 (existing)
- Wikimedians of Mainland China (not approved as of June 2018)
- What are some unique practices/characteristics?
- TK
- Who were the earliest participants, who started it?
- Mountain & Formulax
- Other prominent Wikipedians?
- KJ
- Shizhao
- Theodoranian
- Ting Chen