In the works - Zhongguo-pedia

[Randy W]

in the SCMP

 

China taking on Wikipedia with its own online encyclopaedia

More than 20,000 scholars involved in country’s biggest publication project

 

China has employed tens of thousands of scholars to write an internet version of its national encyclopaedia, which will go online next year to compete against Wikipedia.

The third edition of the Chinese Encyclopaedia is currently China’s largest publication project, with more than 20,000 authors from universities and research institutes contributing to articles in more than 100 disciplines.

Designed to be the nation’s first digital book of “everything”, it will feature more than 300,000 entries, each about 1,000 words long, making it twice as large as theEncyclopaedia Britannica, and about the same size as the Chinese-language version of Wikipedia.

“The Chinese Encyclopaedia is not a book, but a Great Wall of culture,”

 

 

In the Shanghaiist - http://shanghaiist.com/2017/05/02/china-wikipedia.php

 

The project was first approved way back in 2011 by China's State Council as an update to two previously published state-backed encyclopedias, which are not widely read because they have not been published online.

Thanks to the Great Firewall, Wikipedia is also not widely read in China. To fill in the gap, internet giants like Baidu have set up their own versions of Wikipedia which welcome user-submitted content, but also is subject to the final approval of state censors.

Presumably, on the Chinese Encyclopedia user edits will not be allowed.

 

 

[Greg.D.]

Block Wikipedia

 

Create Chinese "Wikipedia"

 

Don't allow user edits

 

I wonder if it will have the usual glaring, blinking ad's on every page

[MikeandRong]

Wish they had the equivalent of Web MD available.