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Chinese Wikipedia

Chinese-language edition of Wikipedia
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Summary

Chinese Wikipedia is a Wikipedia language edition[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of wikipedia language edition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (926 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: wiki with script conversion[3], Chinese-language Internet encyclopedia[4], MediaWiki instance[5]
  • Owned by: Wikimedia Foundation[6]
  • Operator: Wikimedia Foundation[7]
  • Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International[8], GNU Free Documentation License[9]
  • Writing system: Chinese characters[10]
  • Commons category: Chinese Wikipedia[11]
  • Language of work or name: Chinese[12]
  • Wikimedia language code: zh[13]
  • Inception: October 1, 2002[14]
  • Official website: https://zh.wikipedia.org/[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Chinese Wikipedia[16]
  • Product or material produced: online encyclopedia[17]
  • Official name: 中文維基百科[18], 中文维基百科[19]
  • Motto text: 海納百川，有容乃大[20], 海纳百川，有容乃大[21]
  • IRC channel URL: irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikipedia-zh[22]
  • Number of records: 1,115,666[23], 1,526,661[24]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Human rights[25]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[26]
  • API endpoint URL: https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/api.php[27]
  • Contact page URL: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E8%81%94%E7%BB%9C%E6%88%91%E4%BB%AC[28]
  • DuckDuckGo bang: wizh[29], wzh[30]
  • Random page URL: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random[31]

Why It Matters

Chinese Wikipedia has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikiapiary.com. wikiapiary.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12w ago · MidleadingBot bot · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Domain name → zh.wikipedia.org
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Domain name: zh.wikipedia.org, bot ([[:toolforge:editgroups/b/CB/2d1f480bdbec40f1b7e8525ff93b784d|details]])"
  2. 19w ago · Samoasambia · 2026-06-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14427 → https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:2257
    Instance of → Wikipedia language edition, wiki with script conversion, Chinese-language Internet encyclopedia +1
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: Chinese-language Internet encyclopedia"
  3. 19w ago · Trade · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Human rights
    Language of work or name → Chinese
    Official website → https://zh.wikipedia.org/
    Owned by → —
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14427: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:2257, Copying from Wikimedia Commons"
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