Chinese Wikipedia

Chinese Wikipedia
維基百科 / 维基百科
Website logo in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
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Main Page of the Chinese Wikipedia
Main page of the Chinese Wikipedia
Type of site
Online encyclopedia
Available inWritten vernacular Chinese, both traditional and simplified writing systems are available. Articles can be written in both of these systems, and displayed results are always in one of these, as it has a built-in character converter.
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLzh.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched11 May 2001; 23 years ago (2001-05-11)
Current statusActive but banned in Mainland China
Chinese Wikipedia
Traditional Chinese中文維基百科
Simplified Chinese中文维基百科
Literal meaningChinese-language Wiki-encyclopedia
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōngwén Wéijī Bǎikē
Bopomofoㄓㄨㄥ ㄨㄣˊ ㄨㄟˊ ㄐㄧ ㄅㄞˇ ㄎㄜ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhJongwen Weiji Baeke
Wade–GilesChung1-wen2 Wei2-chi1 Pai3-k'o1
Tongyong PinyinJhong-wún Wéi-ji Bǎi-ke
IPA[ʈʂʊ́ŋwə̌n wěɪtɕí pàɪkʰɤ́]
Hakka
RomanizationChûng-vùn Vì-kî Pak-khô
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationJūngmàhn Wàihgēi Baakfō
JyutpingZung1man4 Wai4gei1 Baak3fo1
Canton RomanizationZung¹men⁴ Wei⁴géi¹ Bag³fo¹
IPA[tsɔŋ˥.mɐn˩ wɐj˩.kej˥ pak̚˧.fɔ˥]

The Chinese Wikipedia (traditional Chinese: 中文維基百科; simplified Chinese: 中文维基百科; pinyin: Zhōngwén Wéijī Bǎikē) is the written vernacular Chinese (a form of Mandarin Chinese) edition of Wikipedia. It has been run by the Wikimedia Foundation since 11 May 2001.[1]

The Chinese Wikipedia currently has 1,451,751 articles, 3,620,987 registered users, and 7,166 active editors, of whom 65 have administrative privileges.

The Chinese Wikipedia has been blocked in mainland China since May 2015.[2] Nonetheless, the Chinese Wikipedia is still one of the top ten most active versions of Wikipedia by number of edits and number of editors, due to contributions from users from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Chinese diaspora.

Taiwan and Hong Kong contribute most of the page views of the Chinese Wikipedia.[3]

  1. ^ Richey, Jason. "[Wikipedia-l] new language wikis". List.Wikimedia. Archived from the original on 6 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Wikipedia founder defends decision to encrypt the site in China". 4 September 2015. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  3. ^ https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/zh.wikipedia.org/reading/page-views-by-country/normal%7Ctable%7Clast-month%7C(access)~desktop*mobile-app*mobile-web%7Cmonthly