[Foundation-l] Comparison of Chinese Wikipedia, Hudong and Baidu Baike

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Most of the Wikimedians that I know are into things like IRC, they are on
skype, mailing lists, talk pages .... The question that I have is thy we do
not have our own social networking environment, our own friend functions,
rankings ORGANISED. As these things exist informally would they not work
better if we give room to them...

For instance, I am in contact with many people from the smaller wikipedias,
I get the impression that this contact is appreciated. I even think that it
helps grow the smaller projects because it provides some reassurance.. This
same reassurance can be given when we deliberately foster a community
spirit. This can be done by providing social networking functionality,
rankings, tools etc.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/10/22 Apoc 2400 <apoc2400 at gmail.com>

> I do not read much Chinese, but I have found Baidu Baike and Hudong
> interesting. Let me share my impression of how they differ from Wikipedia.
> * Like most of the Chinese web, there is little regard for copyrights. Most
> of the article text seems to be copied from news articles, the official
> site
> of the subject or various government websites. The images come from
> anywhere
> on the web.
> * They encourage rather than avoid the social networking and game-like
> aspects of the community. As the CNN article says, there are general
> chatrooms, friend functions, points, rankings etc.
> * They are not at all strict with sources. We should remember that
> Wikipedia
> became hugely popular before we really got serious about sources, and most
> non-English Wikipedias are still mostly unsourced.
> * They are generally anarchic. Not towards things the government might
> object to, but to things like BLP, and sources. Celebrity articles are full
> of gossip.
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