| Websitename: | Qiuwen Baike |
| Native Name: | 求闻百科 |
| Collapsible: | y |
| Type: | Online encyclopedia |
| Language: | Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese (support traditional and simplified conversion) |
| Owner: | Wuxi Gongbi Quanshu Technology Company Limited (formerly Wikimedians of Mainland China)[1] |
| Founder: | Wikimedians of Mainland China |
| Commercial: | No |
| Predecessor: | Chinese Wikipedia |
| Country Of Origin: | China |
| Reg: | Required to edit |
Qiuwen Baike is a Chinese online encyclopedia. It was launched in June 2023 by former members of Wikimedians of Mainland China as a fork of the Chinese Wikipedia, and has been described by some media groups as "Beijing-friendly" version of Wikipedia.[2]
The name "Qiuwen", meaning "seeking news", was once a name for the Chinese edition of Wikipedia Signpost.
See main article: article and 2021 Wikimedia Foundation actions on the Chinese Wikipedia. In an interview with the BBC in late October 2021, globally-banned WMC member Yan "Techyan" Enming and 6 other users said the user group was attempting to create a "Chinese version of Wikipedia",[3] a platform that would represent Beijing's views on some political issues for people in mainland China to access without a VPN with oversight from the People's Republic of China government and would use some of Wikipedia's content.
In December 2021, WMC member Techyan told Fast Company that "a tech giant" was negotiating a partnership with them, and that more than 40 Chinese Wikipedia editors had joined Qiuwen with has a total of 200 active editors. and that people would be involved in both Wikipedia and Qiuwen.[4]
In February 2022, ByteDance's subsidiary Baike.com denied the existence of a partnership between ByteDance and WMC to provide technical and financial support for Qiuwen Baike.[5]
In April 2022, the encyclopedia "Qiuwen Baike" created by WMC became open to access, and editors from Taiwan carried out cyber attacks on the site. As of June 2023, Qiuwen baike was open for editing.[6]
Qiuwen Baike was created by copying three-fourths of all articles from the Chinese Wikipedia. It adopts objective point of view based on Chinese values.[7] However, articles containing content contrary to the Chinese government's official line have been removed. Removals of content considered contrary to official Chinese line include the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the Xinjiang internment camps, and Falun Gong.
Qiuwen Baike's text is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.[8]