Baidu Baike

Baidu Baike
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The main page, on 1 February 2016
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Standard Chinese
Headquarters	Beijing
Owner	Baidu
Created by	Robin Li
Website	baike.baidu.com
Alexa rank	4 (along with all other baidu.com sites) (July 2016[update])
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional (required to edit pages)
Current status	Active

Baidu Baike/ˈbaɪduːˈbaɪkə/ (Chinese: ; pinyin: Bǎidù Bǎikē; literally: "Baidu Encyclopedia") is a Chinese-language, collaborative, web-based encyclopedia owned and produced by the Chinese search engine Baidu. Its test version was released on 20 April 2006, and within three weeks the encyclopedia had grown to more than 90,000 articles surpassing the number in . By 2008, Hudong.com had surpassed both in article count, but Baidu Baike later became number one again. The encyclopedia censors its content in accordance with the requirements of the Chinese government. As of July 2016^[update], Baidu Baike has more than 13 million articles.

Baidu state officially that Baidu Baike serves as an online encyclopedia as well as information storage space for netizens. Baidu Baike claims "equality", "cooperation", "sharing" and "freedom" spiritually, and connect this online platform with search engines technically in order to fulfil the needs of the users for information of different levels. When searching with the search engine Baidu, the link of the corresponding entry in Baidu Baike, if exists, will be put as the first result or one of the first results.

Articles or comments containing the following types of content are removed:

Being in the jurisdiction of the Chinese government, Baidu is required to censor content on their encyclopedia in accordance to relevant governmental regulations. All editors need to register accounts using their real names before editing, and administrators filter edits before they go public. Users on microblogging platforms generally perceive Baidu Baike as similar to a governmentally sanctioned information source due to the censorship of its content. As of August 2013, no articles on the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests, the Xinjiang independence movement, or the Falun Gong appear on the encyclopedia.