Chinese Wikipedia

Chinese Wikipedia
中文維基百科/中文维基百科

URL	zh.wikipedia.org
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Chinese wiki community

This article contains Chinese text. Without the correct software, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters.

The Chinese Wikipedia (In Chinese: 中文維基百科/中文维基百科) is the Chinese-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started in October 24, 2002. As of November 2, 2012, it had 600,372 articles. The Chinese Wikipedia can show the same article in many different scripts, in both Simplified and Traditional script.

Basic Information

Name origin

In English language, "Wikipedia" is a portmanteau word that made by "Wiki" (A technology that allowed many people work together) and "encyclopedia". In first, "wikipedia" don't have Chinese name, site called "Zhongwen Wikipedia" (中文Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) simply. As of October 21, 2003, Wikipedia's Chinese name "Weiji Baike" (维基百科/維基百科, meaning Weiji Encyclopedia) was decidecd by Chinese wiki community (by 13 people voted). While pronounced of "Weiji" is likely "Wiki", "Wei" (维/維) meaning rope what can link things, or meaning Net what can see as Internet; "Ji" (基) meaning basic of anything, or base of building. So "Weiji Baike" meaning "the encyclopedia in Internet that cover human's all basic knowledge".

Autoconfirmation

Unlike usual Wikipedias, users who registers an account on the Chinese Wikipedia needs to make at least 50 edits and have an account for more than 7 days before being autoconfirmed, which allows the user to edit semi-protected pages.

Other websites

• Chinese Wikipedia main page