[Foundation-l] Comparison of Chinese Wikipedia, Hudong and Baidu Baike

Thu Oct 22 19:48:39 UTC 2009

Apoc 2400 wrote:
> * They encourage rather than avoid the social networking and game-like
> aspects of the community. As the CNN article says, there are general
> chatrooms, friend functions, points, rankings etc.
>   
Does any of this factor into the number of "entries" or other reported 
data for Hudong and Baidu Baike? I'd like to have a better sense of 
whether we're really getting an apples-to-apples comparison with 
Wikipedia as an encyclopedia. It could have interesting implications, 
either in terms of reconsidering how we interact as a community, or in 
reconsidering whether these are really comparable sites.

--Michael Snow