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Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

ese baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 website. It was created on April 14, 2005. Its major contents are people, event, time, place, and merchandise of Taiwanese baseball.

Wikibaseball runs on MediaWiki

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 software. It is written collaboratively by volunteers. Besides feature story

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, all content is available under CC-BY-NC

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.

Because many people browse this website. United Daily News

United Daily News

The United Daily News is a newspaper published in the Republic of China in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese. It is one of the three biggest newspapers in Taiwan, the other two being the China Times and the Liberty Times.-History:...

, Formosa TV

Formosa TV

Formosa TV is a television station based in Taipei, Taiwan. Established on March 27, 1996, FTV began broadcasting on June 11, 1997.The station was wholly owned and operated by the Democratic Progressive Party. Due to this, its news programs are often of a Pan-Green perspective...

 and some Taiwan media

Mass media

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 introduce this website to Taiwanese people

Taiwanese people

Taiwanese people may refer to individuals who either claim or are imputed cultural identity focused on the island of Taiwan and/or Taiwan Area which have been governed by the Republic of China since 1945...

 on March 2006.http://ndap.dils.tku.edu.tw/site/tv/ After several month, Wikibaseball teamed up with Chinese Taipei Baseball Association

Chinese Taipei Baseball Association

The Chinese Taipei Baseball Association, or CTBA was established on February 28, 1973. The Chinese translation of the English name is: traditional chinese: 中華台北棒球協會, hanyu pinyin: Zhōnghuá Táiběi bàngqiú xiéhuì...

 to digitize their relic. In addition, two Wikibaseball contributors contributed to Liberty Times

Liberty Times

The Liberty Times is a newspaper published in Republic of China in Traditional Chinese. Founded by Lin Rong-San, it is published by the Liberty Times Group, which also publishes the English language newspaper the Taipei Times...

 and interviewed by Uonline reporter on March 2007.

See also

• List of wikis
• Open content
  Open content
  Open content or OpenContent is a neologism coined by David Wiley in 1998 which describes a creative work that others can copy or modify. The term evokes open source, which is a related concept in software....
  
  
• User-generated content
  User-generated content
  User generated content covers a range of media content available in a range of modern communications technologies. It entered mainstream usage during 2005 having arisen in web publishing and new media content production circles...
  
  
• Chinese Taipei Baseball Association
  Chinese Taipei Baseball Association
  The Chinese Taipei Baseball Association, or CTBA was established on February 28, 1973. The Chinese translation of the English name is: traditional chinese: 中華台北棒球協會, hanyu pinyin: Zhōnghuá Táiběi bàngqiú xiéhuì...
  
  

External links

• Official Website — Wikibaseball
• Forum — Ptt
  Professional Technology Temple
  PTT Bulletin Board System is a terminal-based bulletin board system based in Taiwan. It was founded by students from the Department of Information Engineering of National Taiwan University, and is currently administrated by the Electronic BBS Research Society.PTT is arguably the largest BBS in the...