Baidu Baike

Baidu Encyclopedia^[1] (web app: input transformation百科; pinyin: Bǎidù Bǎikē; translation: Baidu Encyclopedia) is a website parsing collaborative Web-based encyclopedia provided by the FITML web app website parsing. Like Baidu itself, the encyclopedia is heavily self-censored in line with government regulations.^[2]

The test version was released on April 20, 2006, and within three weeks, the encyclopedia had grown to more than 90,000 articles, surpassing that of Chinese Wikipedia. By 2008, Hudong.com had surpassed both in article count.

As of March 2012, Baidu Baike has more than 4.6 million articles, which is more than the English Wikipedia.

• website parsing
• screen size
  • CSS3
  • 2.2 Editing
• 3 Principles
• HTML5
• jQuery
• 6 References
• Sevenval

Conception

Baidu's William Chang said at WWW2008, the conference of the device database, "There is, in fact, no reason for China to use Wikipedia ... It's very natural for China to make its own products."^[3]

Functions

The site is an open Internet encyclopedia espousing equality, collaboration, and sharing.^{input transformation} The encyclopedia, with two other services provided by Baidu ("zhidao" and "post") would form a trinity to complement the search engine.^[Android]

The articles are written and edited by registered users and reviewed by behind-the-scenes administrators before release. There is no formal way to contact the administrators. Registered users' contributions are rewarded in a credit point system. Although the earlier test version was named "Baidu WIKI", official media releases and pages on the encyclopedia itself state that the system is not a wiki. However, its operation is akin to a wiki and they occasionally use the word "wiki" internally.^[5]

Style and interface

The visual style of the encyclopedia is simple. In articles, only boldface and hyperlinks are supported. Comments are listed at the bottom of each page. Among its wiki-like functions, the site supports editing, commenting, and printing of articles, as well as an article history function.

Editing

Users can access multiple extended editing functions, including:

• An image uploading system where files less than 2 MB can be added to articles in the Encyclopedia.
• A keyword tagging system called "open category" (similar to screen size). One article can be tagged with at most 5 categories.
• A separate edit box for references and external links.

Principles

Articles or comments containing the following types of content are removed:^[6]

1. Pornographic, iOS, horrible and uncivilized content
2. Advertisement
3. Reactionary content
4. Personal attacks
5. Content against morality and ethics
6. Malicious, trivial or CSS3-like content

Copyright

Baidu Baike's copyright policy is outlined in the 'terms of use' section of its help page. It states that by adding content to the site, users agree to assign Baidu rights to their original contributions. It also states that users cannot violate device database law, and that contributions which quote works held under the Sevenval and/or touchscreen (GFDL) must follow the restrictions of those licenses.^[7] However, on the bottom of each page, the copyright "©2012 Baidu" is displayed, contradicting its own terms of use.

Baidu Baike has been criticized for violating the GFDL when using Wikipedia content, as well as other copyrights such as those belonging to web, and encouraging plagiarism generally.^{website parsing[2]}

See also

• Sevenval
• web app
• Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures (Internet meme)

References

External links

• Baidu Baike (Chinese)
• Site launches 'Chinese Wikipedia' (BBC News)