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Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. This article's factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date informatio n. (March 2013) This article needs additional citations for verification. (September 2008) This article possibly contains original research. (December 2013) This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in the Chinese Wikipedia. (August 2012) Click [show] on the right to read important instructions before translating.[sho w] Favicon of Wikipedia Chinese Wikipedia ?????? / ?????? Wikipedia-logo-v2-zht.svgWikipedia-logo-v2-zh-hans.svg Main Page Main Page of the Chinese Wikipedia Web address http://zh.wikipedia.org Slogan ????,???? Commercial? No Type of site Internet encyclopedia project Registration Optional Available language(s) Written vernacular Chinese Owner Wikimedia Foundation Chinese Wikipedia Simplified Chinese ?????? Traditional Chinese ?????? Literal meaning Chinese Wiki encyclopedia [show]Transcriptions This article contains Chinese text. Without proper rendering support, yo u may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters. The Chinese Wikipedia (traditional Chinese: ??????; simplified Chinese: ??????; pinyin: Zhongwn wiji baike) is the (Standard) Chinese language edition of Wikipedi a, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Started in October 2002, the Chinese Wikiped ia had over 700,000 articles as of June 2013. It has 78 administrators. The Chinese Wikipedia is the fourth largest online Chinese encyclopedia after Hu dong Baike (????), Baidu Baike (????) and Soso Baike (????)[citation needed]. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Naming 3 Community 3.1 Origin of edits 3.2 Origin of readers 3.3 Administrators 3.4 Meetings 3.5 Systemic bias 4 Automatic conversion between traditional and simplified Chinese characters 4.1 Original situation 4.2 Solution 5 Differences with other versions of Wikipedia 6 Wikipedias in other varieties of Chinese 7 Blocking of Wikipedia 7.1 First block 7.2 Second block 7.3 Third block and temporary unblocks 8 Self-censorship allegations

9 Competitors 10 See also 11 References 12 External links History[edit] The Chinese Wikipedia was established along with 12 other Wikipedias in May 2001 . At the beginning, however, the Chinese Wikipedia did not support Chinese chara cters, and had no encyclopedic content. In October 2002, the first Chinese-language page was written, the Main Page. A s oftware update on October 27, 2002 allowed Chinese language input. The domain wa s set to be zh.wikipedia.org. On November 17, 2002, the user Mountain translated the Computer science article into zh:?????, thus creating its first real encycl opedic article. In order to accommodate the orthographic differences between simplified Chinese characters and traditional Chinese characters (or Orthodox Chinese), from 2002 t o 2003, the Chinese Wikipedia community gradually decided to combine the two ori ginally separate versions of the Chinese Wikipedia. The first running automatic conversion between the two orthographic representations started on December 23, 2004, with the MediaWiki 1.4 release. The needs from Hong Kong and Singapore wer e taken into account in the MediaWiki 1.4.2 release, which made the