Chinese Wikipedia

**Chinese Wikipedia**
中文維基百科/中文维基百科
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Chinese wiki community
URL	zh.wikipedia.org
Launched	May 11, 2001; 23 years ago

Chinese Wikipedia (Chinese: 中文維基百科/中文维基百科) is the Chinese-language edition of Wikipedia. It started on May 11, 2001.^[1] 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.^[2] Chinese Wikipedia currently has 1,456,484 articles.^[3]

This article contains Chinese text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters.

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).^[4] 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.^[5]