Official website (https://baike.baidu.com/)
Baidu Baike
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Chinese collaborative wiki-based online encyclopedia
Key facts
- Type of site
- Online encyclopedia
- Available in
- Standard Chinese
- Headquarters
- Beijing , China
- Owner
- Baidu
- Created by
- Robin Li
- Url
- baike .baidu .com
- Commercial
- Yes
- Registration
- Optional (required to edit pages)
- Users
- +8.03 million (2026)
- Current status
- Active
- Chinese
- 百度百科
- Hanyu pinyin
- Bǎidù Bǎikē
- Ipa
- [pa ̀ ɪ.tu ̂ .pa ̀ ɪ.kʰɤ ́ ]
- Jyutping
- baak dou baak fo
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
百度百科
百度百科是一部内容开放、自由的网络百科全书，旨在创造一个涵盖所有领域知识，服务所有互联网用户的中文知识性百科全书。在这里你可以参与词条编辑，分享贡献你的知识。
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Encyclopedic overview
Baidu Baike (/ˈbaɪduː ˈbaɪkə/; Chinese: 百度百科; pinyin: Bǎidù Bǎikē; lit. 'Baidu Encyclopedia', also known as BaiduWiki internationally) is a semi-regulated Chinese-language collaborative online encyclopedia owned by the Chinese technology company Baidu. Modelled after Wikipedia, it was launched in April 2006. As of 2025, it claims more than 30 million entries and around 8.03 million editors – the largest number of entries of any Chinese-language online encyclopedia. Baidu Baike has been criticised for its censorship, copyright violations, commercialist practices and unsourced or inaccurate information.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Baidu Baike” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.