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 Douyin Baike (), formerly Hudong and Hoodong (), is a for-profit social network and Chinese encyclopedia owned by ByteDance. It is one of the two largest wikis in China, along with Baidu Baike. History Baike.com was founded in 2005 by CEO ...

. 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 "

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" in Chinese) in the URL of th
Hudong website
HDWiki is ''not''

open-source software Open-source software (OSS) is Software, computer software that is released under a Open-source license, license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and Software distribution, distribute the software an ...

References

External links

HDWiki website
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