Baike.com

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Baike.com
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Web address baike.com
Slogan The interactive encyclopedia
Type of site
 Social network with wiki-based encyclopedia, chat forums, and bulletin boards
Registration Compulsory
Available in Chinese
Owner Hoodong (Beijing) Technologies Co.
Created by Dr. Pan Haidong (CEO)
Launched 19 June 2005 (2005-06-19)
Alexa rank
 Negative increase 361 (April 2014)[1]
Current status perpetual work-in-progress

Baike.com (Chinese: 互动百科; pinyin: Hùdòng Bǎikē), formerly Hudong and Hoodong, is a for-profit social network in China, including the world's largest Chinese encyclopedia/news website.[2][3] It is China's largest wiki site, using paid advertising,[4] with over 7 million articles and more than 5 million volunteers, as of April 2013.[2][3][5] However, Baike.com is a news/neologism encyclopedia,[2] and hence, it does not restrict articles to only long-term, sourced text with balanced point-of-view content.[citation needed] The contributors agree to release their writings with perpetual royalty-free license to publish their content, but it is not free for re-use on other websites.[6] As of September 2015, it had more than 13.49 million articles.[7]

History

Baike.com was founded in 2005 by CEO Pan Haidong,[8] who had moved back to China after earning a Ph.D. in systems engineering from Boston University in 2002.[9]

Baike.com, a 2007 RedHerring 100 Asia company, developed its own wiki software platform, called HDWiki, as a rival to MediaWiki. The system has some social networking-like interactive features, such as user profile, friends and groups. The first version was released in November 2006 and by November 2007 version 3 with added functions, features, and more stability was released.[10]

The HDWiki software is free for non-commercial use, has been downloaded 200,000 times and currently supports over 1,000 other web sites in China (as of December 2007), consisting mostly of tech researchers, open source software groups, government, universities, and high school students.[citation needed]

In 2011 it was announced that Draper Fisher Jurvetson had invested $15 million in Baike.com.[9]

On 22 February 2012 Baike.com submitted a complaint to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce asking for a review of the behavior of Baidu, accusing it of being monopolistic.[11]

In December 2012, the company changed its English name from Hudong to Baike.com.[12]

Features

Baike.com is a wiki and lets its users edit and contribute material. Frequent users may accumulate credits redeemable for gifts.[9] It has also included features of social networking sites, including chat forums and fan groups.[2][13] Baike.com is a for-profit business partially supported by advertising and paid support services.[2] Contributors grant Baike.com a perpetual royalty-free license to publish and re-use the content; it does not release the content under a free license and does not allow re-use on other sites.[6]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Information game changer", Chinadaily.com, 2011-02-24, webpage: CD6 (Archive) .
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Innovative Chinese wiki software: interview with Hoodong, 10 December 2007
  5. ↑ How Hudong Thumped Wikipedia in China, TNW, 24 November 2009
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hudong Terms of Service, points 7.4 and 8.2. (Chinese)
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Red Herring 100 Asia, 2007
  11. ↑ Yang, Yang (杨阳 Yáng Yáng). Translated by Guo Wei. "China's "Wikipedia" Submits Complaint about Baidu ." (Archive) Economic Observer. 4 March 2011. Issue 508, Corporation, Page 28. Retrieved on 26 October 2012. Original article: "百度：我是大哥 我不叫度娘." 25 February 2011. (Archive)
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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