Chinese Wikipedia

Chinese Wikipedia (Chinese: /) is the Chinese-language edition of Wikipedia. It started on May 11, 2001. The Chinese Wikipedia can show the same article in many different scripts, in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese. It is the 15th largest Wikipedia edition by article count. Chinese Wikipedia currently has  articles.Special:Statistics - Retrieved July 14, 2016 

 Basic information 

 Name origin 

In the English language, "Wikipedia" is a portmanteau word made by "Wiki" (A technology that allows many people to work together) and "encyclopedia". At first, "Wikipedia" did not have a Chinese name. The site was called "Zhongwen Wikipedia" (中文Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia). 

On October 21, 2003, Wikipedia's Chinese name "Weiji Baike" (维基百科/維基百科, meaning Weiji Encyclopedia) was decided by the Chinese wiki community (13 people voted).:zh:维基百科:Wikipedia的中文名 The pronunciation of "Weiji" is like the pronunciation of "Wiki". "Wei" (维/維) means rope that can link things or net. "Ji" (基) means basic, or base. So "Weiji Baike" means "the encyclopedia on the Internet that covers human's all basic knowledge".

 Autoconfirmation 

Unlike other Wikipedias, users who register an account on the Chinese Wikipedia need to make at least 50 edits and have an account for more than 7 days before being autoconfirmed, which allows the user to edit semi-protected pages.Information about being autoconfirmed on the Chinese Wikipedia - Retrieved January 2, 2010 

List of countries Wikipedia distributions

 Chinese Wikipedia
 China
 Hong Kong
 Macau
 Singapore
 Taiwan

 References 

 Other websites 

 Chinese Wikipedia main page

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