Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español was a Spanish-language wiki-based online encyclopedia that started as a fork of the Spanish Wikipedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 and using the same MediaWiki software.
The Chinese Wikipedia is the written vernacular Chinese edition of Wikipedia. It was created 11 May 2001. It is one of multiple projects supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Pu'er is a prefecture-level city in southern Yunnan Province, China. Pu'er City governs 9 counties, 1 district, 103 townships (towns), and a total population of 2.65 million. The urban administrative center of Pu'er is Simao District, which is also the former name of the prefecture-level city itself. A major downturn in the price of tea in 2007 caused severe economic distress in the area. The price of Pu'er has since recovered and Pu'er tea, a type of dark tea, still contributes much to the income of the area.
Baidu Baike is a semi-regulated Chinese-language collaborative online encyclopedia owned by the Chinese technology company Baidu. The beta version was launched on 20 April 2006, and the official version was launched on 21 April 2008. In November 2019, it had more than 16 million articles and 6.9 million editors. As of February 2022, it has more than 25.54 million entries and 7.5 million editors. It has the largest number of entries in the world of any Chinese-language online encyclopedia.
Second Hand Rose is a Chinese rock band from Beijing, China, formed in mainland China in 1999 by musician Liang Long. The band is known for its combination of traditional Chinese instruments and western rock and roll,the stage design is exaggerated and gorgeous, with rich visual effects and humorous lyrics, making the band's style magical and unique in the Chinese rock industry. The band released a successful debut album in 2004.The second-hand rose breaks through the monotonous rock style and openly criticizes modern people's psychological disorders and Taoism.
The Cantonese Wikipedia is the Cantonese-language edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. It was started on 25 March 2006.
Douban.com, launched on 6 March 2005, is a Chinese online database and social networking service that allows registered users to record information and create content related to film, books, music, recent events, and activities in Chinese cities. Douban is named after a Hutong in Chaoyang District, Beijing where the founder lived while he began work on the website.
The Waray Wikipedia is the Waray language edition of Wikipedia. It is hosted on servers run by the Wikimedia Foundation since September 25, 2005. As of December 29, 2024, this edition has 1,266,601 articles and is the 16th largest Wikipedia edition. The Waray Wikipedia has very few active users (74), and instead owes its large size to automatically generated articles created by bots, most of them by Sverker Johansson's Lsjbot.
Wikipedia has been censored by governments that occurred widely in countries including China, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela. Some instances are examples of widespread Internet censorship in general that includes Wikipedia content. Others are indicative of measures to prevent the viewing of specific content deemed offensive. The duration of different blocks has varied from hours to years.
Xu Song, also known as "Vae" in English, is a Chinese singer, songwriter, producer, writer, and music director. He has released 8 albums.
The Wikimedia Foundation has been involved in several lawsuits, generally regarding the content of Wikipedia. They have won some and lost others. In the United States, the Wikimedia Foundation typically wins defamation lawsuits brought against it due to protections that web platforms receive from laws like Section 230.
The Southern Min Wikipedia, also known as Min Nan Wikipedia and Holopedia is the Southern Min edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It is the second largest Wikipedia in a Sinitic language, after Mandarin. Written in Pe̍h-ōe-jī, it mainly uses the Taiwanese Hokkien dialect. As of 14 January 2025, it has 432,928 articles.
Sogou Baike ; Sogou Encyclopedia, formerly Soso Baike is a Chinese-language collaborative web-based encyclopedia provided by the Chinese tech company Sogou and formerly by the search engine Soso. Sogou is part of Tencent, China's largest internal portal. It was officially launched as Soso Baike in on 30 March 2009. The Soso Baike officially changed its name to Sogou Baike and launch it in 2013.
Tsai Eng-meng is a Taiwanese businessman. He is best known for his leadership of the Want Want food company and his family's later acquisition of various news media companies in Taiwan. He is also chairman of the snack food company Want Want China. He was the richest person in Taiwan in 2017.
On September 13, 2021, the Wikimedia Foundation took official action on the Chinese Wikipedia after investigating users from Wikimedians of Mainland China, an unaffiliated Wikipedia user group.
The censorship of Wikimedia in mainland China means that the government of the People's Republic of China and network operators in mainland China have used technical means since June 2004 to prevent netizens in mainland China from accessing some or all project websites under the Wikimedia Foundation. One of the most affected projects is the Chinese Wikipedia. There was no warning from any department before these blockings occurred and no explanation for the reasons after the occurrence. The outside world believes this is caused by the Chinese government's censorship and blocking of sensitive content in Wikimedia Foundation projects.
Moegirlpedia, commonly shortened as Mengbai, is a Chinese wiki encyclopedia launched in October 11, 2010, and features anime, comics, and video games, commonly abbreviated in China as ACG, and mainly contains female characters, moe anthropomorphism works, and Chinese authors' original works.
The 2022 Wikimedia Foundation actions against users in the Middle East and North Africa region were a series of measures taken by the Wikimedia Foundation on December 6, 2022 against Arabic Wikipedia and Persian Wikipedia, which resulted in a total of 16 users being banned, including seven Arabic Wikipedia administrators. The Wikimedia Foundation stated that the Wikipedians were engaged in conflict-of-interest propaganda, while the human rights organization Democracy for the Arab World Now accused the Wikipedians of being controlled by the government of Saudi Arabia, and the action was related to the sentencing of two Arabic Wikipedians to 32 and 8 years respectively in Saudi Arabia in 2020.
Criticisms of Baidu and related controversies related to the company refer to the critical assessment of and incidents related to Baidu and its products by its customers.
