Baidu Baike

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Baidu Baike
百度百科
Baidu Baike.png
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The main page, on 29 July 2008
Web address baike.baidu.com
Commercial? Yes
Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia project
Registration Optional (required to edit pages)
Available in Chinese
Owner Baidu
Created by Robin Li
Alexa rank
 Steady 5 (along with all other baidu.com sites) (February 2013)[1]
Current status Active

Baidu Baike [2] (Chinese: 百度百科; pinyin: Bǎidù Bǎikē; "Baidu Encyclopedia") is a Chinese language collaborative web-based encyclopedia provided by the Chinese search engine Baidu. The test version was released on April 20, 2006, and within three weeks, the encyclopedia had grown to more than 90,000 articles, surpassing that of Chinese Wikipedia. By 2008, Hudong.com had surpassed both in article count but Baidu Baike is number one again. The encyclopedia censors in accordance with the requirements of the Chinese government.[3][4][5][6]

As of January 2016, Baidu Baike has more than 13 million articles.[7]

Conception

Baidu's William Chang said at WWW2008, the conference of the World Wide Web Consortium, "There is, in fact, no reason for China to use Wikipedia ... It's very natural for China to make its own products."[8]

Functions

The site is an open Internet encyclopedia espousing equality, collaboration, and sharing.[9] The encyclopedia, with two other services provided by Baidu ("zhidao" and "post") would form a trinity to complement the search engine.[clarification needed]

The articles are written and edited by registered users and reviewed by behind-the-scenes administrators before release. There is no formal way to contact the administrators. Registered users' contributions are rewarded in a credit point system. Although the earlier test version was named "Baidu WIKI", official media releases and pages on the encyclopedia itself state that the system is not a wiki. However, its operation is akin to a wiki and they occasionally use the word "wiki" internally.[10][not in citation given]

Editing

Users can access multiple extended editing functions, including:

  • An image uploading system where files less than 2 MB can be added to articles in the Encyclopedia.
  • A keyword tagging system called "open category" (similar to folksonomy). One article can be tagged with at most 5 categories.
  • A separate edit box for references and external links.

Content restrictions

Articles or comments containing the following types of content are removed:[11]

  1. Pornographic, violent, horrible and uncivilized content
  2. Advertisement
  3. Reactionary content
  4. Personal attacks
  5. Content against morality and ethics
  6. Malicious, trivial or spam-like content

Formation

Front page

The present front page of Baidu Baike was put in use in September 6, 2012, and on the top of the page marked the slogan "Let all humanity learn the world equally," the present volume of users, net volume of entries; on the bottom-left of the front page presented selected knowledge contents, and the bottom right relative announcement, plannings and projects, etc. the front page information are usually of current hot topics, often related to featured news and other appendix. Beside those hot topics, there are also one-sentence summaries to the news. Other than the front page, Baidu Baike also adds channels such as nature, culture, geography, and special topics such as core-users, digital museums, etc.

Entries

The entry pages of Baidu Baike includes calling cards, texts, and other supporting information. The earlier version allows users to comment on the page, but was nullified after September, 2008.[12] The language used are mainly simplified Chinese; traditional Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese will be automatically translated into simplified Chinese.

Calling Cards and Texts

Baike calling cards contain two parts: the description of an entry and the basic information. The former is similar to the preface of an article, which gives general introduction to the whole texts; the latter uses table to summarize basic information and statistics. Both are edited separately from the main body. The main texts are limited to 40 thousand bits, which is equivalent to 20 thousand Chinese characters[citation needed]. There are two possible levels of title, and the system will give a content accordingly. At the end of the article is the declaration of exemption. The earlier version of the entry can only contain one image,[13] but now 20 images and 20 albums. The entry can also link to Baidu map, dynamic screenshots, and videos. Information cited are listed beneath the main text, which does not distinguish footnote from others. However, the image cited are not specified the source, but contains image directories.

Supporting Information

Most supporting information are located at the bottom or the right of the page, except scientific terms, which are pushed to the top. Supporting information are usually generated by the system automatically, with some edited by hand. Supporting information are presented as modules, such as scientific terms, Douban film commentaries, etc.

Supporting information on the right of the page contains personal information, statistics, today in history, contribution of honor, current trends, and pop-links. Statistics are of page viewed, numbers of editing, latest update, creators information, etc. Contribution of honor features complex editing,[14] user ID who has made excellent editing, and its links. The honor gives different kinds of medals. Current trends are used to present some current activities, and the pop-links are of advertisement, which generate some profits form Baidu company.

The supporting information on the bottom contain database, Baidu Dictionary, related entries, users recommendation, collaborated editors. Database are usually present at the film star's, which lists the single songs, albums, and related videos of them. When terms or phrases are listed in one product of Baidu, Baike will also give links to the explanation. Users recommendation are used to collect and count the positive response of the entry, or the number of vote to "this enty is helpful to me".

Scope

Contents and categories

Unlike a traditional encyclopedia, the information on Baidu Baike is broader, similar to Chinese Wikipedia and Hudong Baike. Baidu Baike also includes food recipes, film products, internet programs, and video games as its contents. However, unlike Chinese Wikipedia, Baidu Baike never gives strict definition on the difference between an encyclopedia and a dictionary. There are also many explanations on dictions and common phrases.

Beside formal contents, Baidu Baike also includes special entries:

  • A Sandbox, or “编辑实验” entry, which gives user chance to practice editing.
  • Help, which gives terminologies, basic settings, regulations, user titles, etc.
  • User page, which is called "Baidu Authorized ID", similar to the one in Wikipedia. However, it is viewed as an encouragement of advanced users, and rarely does anyone have the privilege to form ones own.[15]

Baidu Baike holds open policies on the edition of entries, an support categorized search functions. The categorization is based on the characteristics of an entry but not the quality,[16] and there is no limit in categorization. Baidu Baike has now an elementary categorized page and tree, part of the open categorization can be set according to levels, but catalogs having similar meaning could not be merged or redirected.

Numbers of entries

According to the latest list of entries, Baidu Baike has an increase of about 3,800 entries per day. Here are some milestones:

Time # Milestone Reference
Jan 16, 2008 1M 故事海 (Kathasaritsagara) [17]
Feb 8, 2010 2M 章启群 (A professor in Peking University) [18]
Jan 12, 2011 3M 222年 (222) [19]
Nov 22, 2011 4M 乌天麻 (Gastrodia elata f. glauca) [20]
Jun 13, 2012 5M 桦南白瓜 (a cultivar of pumpkin planted in Huanan County) [21]
Mar 15, 2013 6M Not announced [22]

Copyright

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See also: Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Baidu Baike

Baidu Baike's copyright policy is outlined in the 'terms of use' section of its help page. It states that by adding content to the site, users agree to assign Baidu rights to their original contributions. It also states that users cannot violate intellectual property law, and that contributions which quote works held under the Creative Commons and/or GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) must follow the restrictions of those licenses.[23] However, on the bottom of each page, the copyright "©2024 Baidu" is displayed, contradicting its own terms of use.

Baidu Baike has been criticized for violating the GFDL when using Wikipedia content, as well as other copyrights such as those belonging to Hudong.com, and encouraging plagiarism generally.[3][24]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ "The Baidu Story." Baidu. Retrieved on June 3, 2011.
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  4. ↑ Jason Q. Ng, August 28, 2013, Who’s the Boss? The difficulties of identifying censorship in an environment with distributed oversight: a large-scale comparison of Wikipedia China with Hudong and Baidu Baike, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
  5. ↑ Han-Teng Liao, (2013). How do Baidu Baike and Chinese Wikipedia filter contribution?: a case study of network gatekeeping. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration. doi:10.1145/2491055.2491082
  6. ↑ Zhang Xiaoquan, Zhu Feng, (2011). Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia. The American Economic Review, 101(4), pp.1601-1615. doi:10.1257/aer.101.4.1601
  7. ↑ http://baike.baidu.com/
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  10. ↑ Entering a keyword as of 2009-07-18, such as 猫 (cat), and clicking the button "search" will gave a page with a URL like http://baike.baidu.com/w?ct=17&lm=0&tn=baiduWikiSearch&pn=0&rn=10&word=%C3%A8&submit=search, which has the word "baiduWikiSearch" in it.
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  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.在这次升级中评论被读者推荐代替，这篇文章后的评论中即有用户询问评论区为何取消，例如31楼、37楼和39楼
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  14. ↑ 参见 复杂编辑的定义。
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