'Chinese Wikipedia' offers social networking too - Business Center - PC World

May 22, 2009

A Chinese rival of Wikipedia that also lets users join groups and chat as they might on Facebook has drawn on those social elements to pull ahead of its competition.

Hudong, which means "interaction" in Chinese, has become the largest wiki-based encyclopedia in the language since its founding in 2005, said company CEO Pan Haidong. "We want to be the Chinese Wikipedia," Pan said...