Baidu launched Baidupedia
Baidu, the largest search engine in China, launched its version of the “people's encyclopedia”. For local residents, “Baidupedia” should be a complete replacement for the original Wikipedia, which is banned in China.
The “Chinese” Wikipedia is created according to the model and likeness of its foreign counterpart. Here anyone can edit any article or add a new text. However, the authors of the articles are well aware that any free-thinking here will be nipped in the bud. Dozens of Chinese bloggers are already in jail.
Wikipedia , which is now the most popular encyclopedia in the world, at one time became a fairly well-known information resource among Chinese users. The number of articles in the Chinese version grew rapidly and reached 67.000. However, last year, the Chinese authorities blocked access to this site. As you know, the “great Chinese firewall” filters out hundreds of Western websites. Even the search results on the Chinese versions of Google and Yahoo give results that are markedly different from those that are issued by the American versions of search engines.
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In the Chinese Internet, any references to well-known dissidents are carefully filtered out, as well as events in Tian An-Myin Square. Naturally, it is not possible to remove such important and well-known information from the English-language Wikipedia, even if all the Chinese Internet censors combined work together (according to some estimates, the Chinese “Internet police” staff is 30,000 people). Therefore, the authorities had to completely block access to Wikipedia. Users will be offered a surrogate of domestic production.
The Chinese version of the encyclopedia began work in April 2006 on the Baidu portal, so that, by analogy with the Western model, it can be called Baidupedia. The developers of the project admit that they have specially created the site exactly according to the western model. At the same time, the Chinese version directly warns users to avoid in their articles “malicious assessments of the modern state system”, any “attacks on government institutions”, and “propaganda of depressive or negative attitudes on life”. All materials previously pass through an automatic filtering system, and authors receive incentive points for each successful publication.
The “Chinese” Wikipedia is created according to the model and likeness of its foreign counterpart. Here anyone can edit any article or add a new text. However, the authors of the articles are well aware that any free-thinking here will be nipped in the bud. Dozens of Chinese bloggers are already in jail.
Wikipedia , which is now the most popular encyclopedia in the world, at one time became a fairly well-known information resource among Chinese users. The number of articles in the Chinese version grew rapidly and reached 67.000. However, last year, the Chinese authorities blocked access to this site. As you know, the “great Chinese firewall” filters out hundreds of Western websites. Even the search results on the Chinese versions of Google and Yahoo give results that are markedly different from those that are issued by the American versions of search engines.
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In the Chinese Internet, any references to well-known dissidents are carefully filtered out, as well as events in Tian An-Myin Square. Naturally, it is not possible to remove such important and well-known information from the English-language Wikipedia, even if all the Chinese Internet censors combined work together (according to some estimates, the Chinese “Internet police” staff is 30,000 people). Therefore, the authorities had to completely block access to Wikipedia. Users will be offered a surrogate of domestic production.
The Chinese version of the encyclopedia began work in April 2006 on the Baidu portal, so that, by analogy with the Western model, it can be called Baidupedia. The developers of the project admit that they have specially created the site exactly according to the western model. At the same time, the Chinese version directly warns users to avoid in their articles “malicious assessments of the modern state system”, any “attacks on government institutions”, and “propaganda of depressive or negative attitudes on life”. All materials previously pass through an automatic filtering system, and authors receive incentive points for each successful publication.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4051/
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