[WikiEN-l] Baidupedia (the downside to free content?)

[Timwi]

Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> "China's biggest Internet search site, Baidu.com, has launched a
> Chinese-language encyclopedia inspired by the cooperative reference
> site Wikipedia, which the communist government bars China's Web
> surfers from seeing.   However, entries on Baidupedia, the service
> from Nasdaq-listed Baidu.com launched last month, are censored by the
> Chinese Government."
> 
> http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,19100960%255E1702,00.html
> 
> Anyone know if they use the actual content from Wikipedia or not?

Why don't you just go and check? Look here:

http://baike.baidu.com/lemma-php/dispose/view.php/51931.htm

and here:

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%84%92%E5%AE%B6

Yep, same content.

Timwi