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The Chinese Wikipedia was established along with 12 other Wikipedias in May 2001. At the beginning, however, the Chinese Wikipedia did not support Chinese characters, and had no encyclopedic content. In October 2002, the first Chinese-language page was written, the Main Page. A software update on 27 October 2002 allowed Chinese language input.
Most computers with Microsoft Windows, Apple's macOS and many Linux variants will already have fonts with support for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and the International Phonetic Alphabet installed. Many mobile devices, such as the iPhone and iPad also include such fonts.
Computer input of Chinese characters is by no means as easy as English. English is written with 26 letters and a handful of other characters, and each character is assigned to a key on the keyboard. Chinese can be input in a similar way. However that would involve a huge keyboard with at least thousands of keys.
Qiuwen Baike (simplified Chinese: 求闻百科; traditional Chinese: 求聞百科) is a Chinese online encyclopedia.It was launched in June 2023 by former members of Wikimedians of Mainland China as a fork of the Chinese Wikipedia, and has been described as a "Beijing-friendly" version of Wikipedia.
What Does a Chinese Keyboard Look Like?, article by Slate.com; Overview of Input Methods, by Sebastien Bruggeman. 中文輸入法世界 Chinese input method news. The engineering daring that led to the first Chinese personal computer. With 1,000s of Chinese characters and limited memory, inventors of the Sinotype III had to push the limits of ...
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
Wikipedia is a free multilingual open-source wiki-based online encyclopedia edited and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, started on January 15th 2001 as an English-language encyclopedia.
An alternative method is to use the English keyboard layout, and encode each Chinese character in the English characters; this is the predominant method of Chinese character input today. Sound-based encoding is normally based on an existing Latin character scheme for Chinese phonetics, such as the Pinyin Scheme for Mandarin Chinese or Putonghua ...