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.
It's expected to be the same size as the
Chinese-language version of Wikipedia, 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.
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