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This page was created to provide a narrative describing the Chinese Wikipedia community. It was started by User:Fuzheado and is geared towards publication in academic texts. For this reason, it is done in English (and the fact that User:Fuzheado's Putonghua is terrible).

Missing information is represented by TK, which is the proofreading convention for "to come". In the spirit of Wiki, anyone is encouraged to fill in the TKs or to edit this text.

Introduction

The Chinese Wikipedia, or formally Zhongwen Wikipedia, is the Chinese version of the world's largest free encyclopedia project. While the Wikipedia has been around since TK, the Chinese version was started in May 2001. According to the Wikipedia language list, the main page was made on November 16, 2002.

Beginnings

First users, translators of interface?
Challenges? Stories?

Community and Conventions

Description of active community
List of active members, areas of expertise

Simplified versus Traditional Chinese characters

Which one does Zh Wikipedia use, and why?

Dealing with PRC, HK, Taiwan, Overseas Chinese culture

Cultural differences among different groups

Content

Best articles, ie. Brilliant Prose
Significant edit wars
Hot button issues, neutrality disputes
Recurring themes, issues, problems

Statistics

With just over 3,600 articles at the beginning of 2004, the Hanyu Wikipedia is the 13th largest language Wikipedia, ranking just behind Italian and Catalan. [1]

The largest Wikipedias (January 3, 2004):

  1. English (189,273)
  2. German (Deutsch) (43,883)
  3. Japanese (Nihongo) (24,305)
  4. French (Français) (22,669)
  5. Swedish (Svenska) (19,026)
  6. Polish (Polska) (19,009)
  7. Dutch (Nederlands) (17,928)
  8. Spanish (Español) (14,733)
  9. Danish (Dansk) (14,616)
 10. Esperanto (10,467)
 11. Italian (Italiano) (5,349)
 12. Catalan (Català) (4,950)
 13. Chinese (Hanyu) (3,665)
 14. Slovenian (Slovensko) (3,515)
 15. Romanian (Română) (3,123)