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Chinese Wikipedia
中文維基百科/中文维基百科

Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Chinese wiki community
URL	zh.wikipedia.org
Launched	May 11, 2001; 22 years ago (2001-05-11)

This article contains Chinese text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters.

Chinese Wikipedia (Chinese: 中文維基百科/中文维基百科) is the Chinese-language edition of Wikipedia. It started on May 11, 2001.^[1] The Chinese Wikipedia can show the same article in many different scripts, in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese. It is the 15th largest Wikipedia edition by article count.^[2] Chinese Wikipedia currently has 1,415,968 articles.^[3]

Basic information[change | change source]

Name origin[change | change source]

In the English language, "Wikipedia" is a portmanteau word made by "Wiki" (A technology that allows many people to work together) and "encyclopedia". At first, "Wikipedia" did not have a Chinese name. The site was called "Zhongwen Wikipedia" (中文Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia).

On October 21, 2003, Wikipedia's Chinese name "Weiji Baike" (维基百科/維基百科, meaning Weiji Encyclopedia) was decided by the Chinese wiki community (13 people voted).^[4] The pronunciation of "Weiji" is like the pronunciation of "Wiki". "Wei" (维/維) means rope that can link things or net. "Ji" (基) means basic, or base. So "Weiji Baike" means "the encyclopedia on the Internet that covers human's all basic knowledge".

Autoconfirmation[change | change source]

Unlike other Wikipedias, users who register an account on the Chinese Wikipedia need 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.^[5]

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Other websites[change | change source]

• Chinese Wikipedia main page

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