[WikiEN-l] We've been overtaken.

[Scientia Potentia est]

I'm not too concerned. Their notability standards seem to be very loose, and they have few of the trappings that we emphasize: BLP, neutrality, reliable sourcing, brilliant prose, etc. The software is also much more focused on social networking. Furthermore, Hudong is not free.

I also wonder what fluff they have marked as "articles," because their category on wildlife is quite threadbare: http://www.hudong.com/categoryalldocs/%E8%87%AA%E7%84%B6%E7%94%9F%E7%89%A9/

--- On Mon, 4/20/09, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
From: geni <geniice at gmail.com>
Subject: [WikiEN-l] We've been overtaken.
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 2:51 PM

Hudong.com is now bigger than us:

http://www.jlmpacificepoch.com/newsstories?id=139049_0_5_0_M

In fact they may have broken 3 million but I can't read

全球最大中文百科由全球1,016,360位网民共同编写而成。共计3,050,203词条，32.7亿文字

and I'm not totally certain their definition of article is the same as
ours. Still I think we need to get a clearer idea of what is going on
at Hudong.

-- 
geni

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