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Baike.com

Social network and a large encyclopedia in China

Douyin Baike (Chinese: 抖音百科; pinyin: dǒu yīn bǎi kē), formerly known as Hudong Baike (Chinese: 互动百科, also sometimes spelled Hoodong and also known as Baike.com), is a for-profit Chinese-language user-editable online encyclopedia and social network owned by ByteDance. Founded in 2005 in emulation of Wikipedia, it is one of the two largest wikis in China, along with its more prominent rival, Baidu Baike.

Baike.com is a wiki and lets its users edit and contribute material. Frequent users may accumulate credits redeemable for gifts. It has also included features of social networking sites, including chat forums and fan groups. Baike.com is a for-profit business partially supported by advertising and paid support services. Hudong Baike developed its own wiki software platform, called HDWiki, as a rival to MediaWiki. It also released YELLOWIKI, a classifieds platform. The HDWiki software is free for non-commercial use, has been downloaded 200,000 times and currently supports over 1,000 other web sites in China (as of December 2007), consisting mostly of tech researchers, software groups, government, universities, and high school students. Although Hudong Baike tried to branch out into software as a service, it was primarily reliant on advertising for revenue.

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