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The Chinese Wikipedia has been blocked in mainland China since May 2015. [2] Nonetheless, the Chinese Wikipedia is still one of the top ten most active versions of Wikipedia by number of edits and number of editors, [3] [4] due to contributions from users from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Chinese diaspora.
The Chinese government has cut off access to the Chinese Wikipedia for residents of mainland China since 2019. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] In 2015, the "Baike Youming" service was launched, a paid commercial service that allowed figures such as entrepreneurs and artists to control their biographies and provide personally verified information.
China's Wikipedia may refer to: Chinese Wikipedia, the Chinese-language version of Wikipedia; Baidu Baike, a "wiki-like" Chinese-language online encyclopedia; Hudong, another "wiki-like" Chinese-language online encyclopedia; Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China, China's policy of preventing access to Wikipedia from within the country
Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters could be chosen as a Chinese name, a Hong Kong name, a Japanese name, a Korean name, a Malaysian Chinese name, or a Vietnamese name, but they would be spelled differently due to their varying historical pronunciation of Chinese characters.
In 2007, Chinese government and Chinese industry sources stated that Baidu received a license from Beijing, which allows the search engine to become a full-fledged news website. Thus Baidu is able to provide its own reports, besides showing certain results as a search engine. Baidu was the first Chinese search engine to receive such a license. [25]
The name is thought to derive from the Chinese word for silk, 丝; 絲; sī; Middle Chinese sɨ, Old Chinese *slɯ, per Zhengzhang). It is itself at the origin of the Latin for 'silk', sērica . This may be a back formation from sērikos ( σηρικός ), 'made of silk', from sēr ( σήρ ), 'silkworm', in which case Sēres is 'the land ...
The Chinese abbreviated name, e.g. Ningwu Railway, should still be mentioned in the first sentence of the article as a secondary name of the expressway/railway, and should be made a redirect link to the article. This Chinese abbreviated name can be freely used in the article itself and in other articles. The rule above applies only to article ...
Wikipedia in China may refer to: Chinese Wikipedia , the Chinese-language version of Wikipedia Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China , the People's Republic of China's policy of preventing access to Wikipedia from within the country