Clash of the encyclopedias: is competition good for sharing?

Presented at SHARISM Forum, 2010.

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1. Clash
   Encyclopedias
   Is competition good for sharing?
   Brianna Laugher * SHARISM
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2. “There's, in fact, no reason for China to use
   Wikipedia, a service based 'out there'. It's
   very natural for China to make its own
   products.”
   – Baidu's William Chang
   

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3. “[I]t's very easy for overseas Chinese to
   accept Hudong.com as the 'Wikipedia of
   China.' […] We think we understand the
   Chinese language and people better than
   Wikipedia. We believe we can do a better
   job.”
   – Hudong's Haidong Pan
   

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5. 1. Hudong
   2. English Wikipedia
   3. Baidu Baike
   4. German Wikipedia
   …
   Chinese Wikipedia
   World's largest wikis
   

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7. [insert Hudong
   edit button here]
   

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8. fragmentation of effort
   vs
   competition is healthy
   ?
   

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11. Unique Selling Proposition
    

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12. 5P
    五大支柱
    

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13. WP:NOT
    百科
    

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14. 永乐大典
    1408
    

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15. 古今圖書集成
    1725
    

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16. NPOV
    中立
    

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17. not the “middle” or moderate position
    an overview of all positions
    

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19. free content
    开放
    ( 自由內容 )
    

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22. a free content license is...
    

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23. protection for the community
    

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24. an invitation for everyone else
    

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31. AGF
    互重
    

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32. IAR
    无权威
    

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34. protection for the community
    

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35. the right to fork!
    

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36. … in case the administrators
    become jerks
    

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37. .... in case the community becomes
    divided about which direction to go
    

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38. … in case the owners decide
    it's no longer “financially viable”
    

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39. … in case the owners
    abandon the project
    

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40. no one knows everything,
    but everyone knows something
    

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41. no one owns any particular thing,
    but everyone owns everything
    

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42. Competition from within?
    

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44. the argument for free culture
    always needs to include
    FREEDOM!
    

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45. •
    Title picture “Fight on snow” from http://www.flickr.com/photos/63766699@N00/225701
    1693 by
    Suneko, licensed CC-BY-SA.
    •
    Logos and screenshots © respective owners
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    Globe from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Globe_Eurasia.svg by Ssolbergj,
    licensed GFDL
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    Map of China from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_map_of_china.svg by
    historicair, licensed CC-BY-SA
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    Graph of Chinese Wikipedia block from "Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural
    Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia" by Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang and Feng Zhu, published in
    the American Economic Review.
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    Chinese encyclopedia images public domain, from Wikimedia Commons
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    Nobel image from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Nobel_mirrored.png by
    Aushulz, released into the public domain
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    WikiReader photos from http://www.flickr.com/photos/pfctdayelise/sets/72157625071914527/ by
    me :) licensed CC-BY-SA
    •
    Protective vest icon from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D-M015.svg by Epop,
    released into the public domain
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    Wikipe-tan with Chinese 'welcome' sign from
    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipe-tan_holding_a_welcome_sign_cropped_%28simp
    by Leon3289, licensed CC-BY-SA.
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    PediaPress book stack from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pedia-bunch-2.jpg by
    Notafish, licensed CC-BY-SA.
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    Riot drawing public domain, from Wikimedia Commons
    Credits
    

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46. thanks!
    brianna@modernthings.org
    [[user:pfctdayelise]]
    (but you can call me 罗碧琴 :))
    brianna.laugher.id.au/blog/
    © Brianna Laugher,
    licensed CC-BY-SA
    unless otherwise noted.
    

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