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Chinese Wikipedia has 940,000 articles, baike has 6 million articles.

Wikipedia editors are pretty strict about what gets to remain a page. Everyone knows they delete articles unless it has lots of sources and public interest.

With 6x the articles on baike I can't imagine that there is that level of quality control. Unless there are 6x as many things worth documenting in China vs rest of the world.

An interesting statistic none-the-less.

English Wikipedia has 5.4 million articles. I imagine many of them would be notable in Chinese too.

Baidu Baike has not changed its portrait of bad quality/credibility issue/plagiarism from my memory.

That doesn't surprise me; in Japan there are various Japanese wiki sites, usually with less information than even the Japanese versions of Wikipedia, but still with more articles. Usually they even have comment sections below the articles, which can become quite toxic, at least on certain articles.

Because it is a for-profit website with strict content re-use policy?