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05-02-2017, 05:29 PM
China is creating its own Wikipedia, but it's **t open to the public for editing
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China is planning an ambitious online resource to rival Wikipedia. The inaugural digital version of the Chinese Encyclopaedia will, in effect, be the country's first online book of "everything."
But free speech activists say that the new digital compendium is bound to distort or omit certain topics for political purposes.
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The digital project is the third edition of the *Chinese Encyclopaedia, and will enlist 20,000 scholars from tertiary institutions to write, reports the South China Morning Post (http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2091140/china-taking-wikipedia-its-own-online-encyclopaedia).
It's expected to be the same size as the Chinese-language version of Wikipedia (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5), and twice as long as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with more than 30,000 entries, each roughly 1,000 words long. The encyclopaedia will go online in 2018. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/02/china-wikipedia-encyclopaedia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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China is planning an ambitious online resource to rival Wikipedia. The inaugural digital version of the Chinese Encyclopaedia will, in effect, be the country's first online book of "everything."
But free speech activists say that the new digital compendium is bound to distort or omit certain topics for political purposes.
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It's expected to be the same size as the Chinese-language version of Wikipedia (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5), and twice as long as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with more than 30,000 entries, each roughly 1,000 words long. The encyclopaedia will go online in 2018. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/02/china-wikipedia-encyclopaedia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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