Wikipedia will soon have a major Chinese competitor.
According to the South China Morning Post, China is working its own version of Wikipedia that will encapsulate over 300,000 entries — each roughly 1,000 words in length — which would make it twice as large as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
The Encyclopaedia of China "is not a book, but a Great Wall of culture", says Yang Muzhi, editor-in-chief of the project.
Officials announced that they have already hired around 20,000 people to write the articles and design the structure of new digital book.
The platform will face stiff competition from local internet companies Baidu and Qihu 360, which have their own versions that attract massive traffic, as well as Wikipedia (of course).
Wikipedia is not blocked in China, though certain entries are inaccessible and the Chinese-language site occasionally experiences outages within the mainland.
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