Qiuwen
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Screenshot  Qiuwen homepage (Simplified Chinese Version) | |
Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
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| Available in | Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese (support traditional and simplified conversion) |
| Owner | Wikimedians of Mainland China |
| Commercial | No |
Content license | CC Attribution / Share-Alike 4.0 |
Qiuwen is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through a model of open collaboration, using a wiki-based editing system. As of February 9, 2022, the number of Chinese articles reached 630,000. It is hosted by the Wikimedians of Mainland China (WMC).
Background
In a 2021 Wikimedia Foundation actions on the Chinese Wikipedia, several WMC members were blocked by the Wikimedia Foundation domain-wide, which means they will never be able to participate in Wikipedia writing. In an interview with the BBC in late October 2021, WMC member Techyan said the user group was attempting to create a "Chinese version of Wikipedia",[1] a platform that would represent Beijing's views on some political issues for people in mainland China to access without a VPN and receive censorship from the China government, and would use some of Wikipedia's content.[note 1][1]
Related Information
In December 2021, WMC member Techyan told Fast Company that "a tech giant" was negotiating a partnership with them, and that more than 40 Chinese Wikipedia editors had joined Qiuwen, which has a total of 200 active editors, and that people would be involved in both Wikipedia and Qiuwen.[2]
In February 2022, it was announced that ByteDance was providing technical and financial support for WMC's newly created "Qiuwen", but this was denied by ByteDance's subsidiary Baike.com.[3]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Under one of the foundational guidelines, Wikipedia is openly copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (some content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "維基百科移除親北京編輯 被逐者將建「中國版維基」" (in zh). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5a7vTn6W1E.
- ↑ "The war over Chinese Wikipedia is a warning for the open internet" (in en). Fast Company. 2021-12-18. https://www.fastcompany.com/90692176/chinese-wikipedia. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- ↑ "传字节跳动与中文维基百科人员合作创建新“求闻百科”，官方称不属实" (in zh). 界面新闻. https://www.jiemian.com/article/7080346.html.
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