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[Free The Blogger] BEIJING ”” China’s biggest Internet search site, Baidu.com, has launched a Chinese-language encyclopedia inspired by the cooperative reference site Wikipedia, which the communist government bars China’s Web surfers from seeing. The Chinese service, which debuted in April, carries entries written by users, but warns that it will delete content about sex, terrorism and attacks on the government.

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Paul Carr's Storyhttp://spaces.msn.com/EuropeanPaulCarr [Paul Carr's Story] Wikipedia versus Baidupedia.: Diligent Pavilion, who has worked on Wikipedia topics ranging from archaeology to software, is scathing about the site’s new Chinese rival. “It can only use simple language, there’s basically no co-operation, everything has to go through censorship, it relies on points to stimulate everyone to write entries and staff are needed to manage things,” he says.

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org [Globalvoicesonline.org] Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » China: Chinese Wikipedia ...: “Since Wikipedia is blocked in China, we’ll see just how creative Baidu writers can actually get,” writes Virtual China’s Lyn Jeffery, going on to point out that the number of entries are already flowing in by hundreds each hour.

http://wikip.blogspot.com [Wikip.blogspot.com] Wikipedia Blog: Blog post that frames wikipedia's success interestingly, touches on social science and the future of web browsing, with some wiki business analysis in between.

http://government.zdnet.com [Government.zdnet.com] Why China censors Wikipedia | ZDNet Government Blog | ZDNet.com: The Washington Post today features a fascinating account of citizens building the Chinese Wikipedia and why the government chooses to censor. The trouble centers naturally around Tiananmen Square, but really it's about the trouble that top-down governments have with the grass-roots collaboration that Wikipedia offers.

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