HDWiki is a Chinese

wiki software Wiki software (also known as a wiki engine or a wiki application), is collaborative software that runs a wiki, which allows the users to create and collaboratively edit pages or entries via a web browser. A wiki system is usually a web application ...

developed by the online encyclopedia

Hudong Baike.com (), formerly Hudong and Hoodong (), is a for-profit social network in Chinese, including the world's largest Chinese encyclopedia. It is one of the two largest wikis in China, along with Baidu Baike, claiming to have more than 18 mill ...

. It is used by over 1000 websites in China.

License and development

The source code for HDWiki is free for anyone to download without registration HDWiki is free for non-commercial use, while commercial use requires a special licensing agreement from Hudong. Despite the name "kaiyuan" () (implying " open-source" in Chinese) in the URL of th
Hudong website
HDWiki is ''not''

open-source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Op ...

References

External links

HDWiki website
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