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The Russian Wikipedia (Russian: Русская Википедия) is the Russian language edition of Wikipedia. It was founded on May 20, 2001. Its 10,000th article was created on December 30, 2004 and it's currently one of the largest and fastest growing Wikipedias. On May 19, 2008 it became the 10th largest Wikipedia by size and on June 16, 2009 it passed the 400,000 articles threshold. As of August 2009, yearly traffic was growing at a rate of 117%, nearly twice that of the second fastest growing, Korean Wikipedia.[1]

On November 29, 2006, it was awarded the Russian state "Runet Prize" (Премия Рунета) in the science and education category. [2]

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[edit] Policies

Rules in Russian Wikipedia are not regarded as flexible in disputes as they are on the English project. Many things can be resolved through an arbitration committee which can resolve content disputes, block users or prohibit certain users to edit articles on certain topics. Misuse of an administrator's privileges can also be easily appealed.

The Russian Wikipedia accepts fair use content and is generally quite liberal on what content is allowed. One thing which serves as an exception is categorization or listing of people based on their ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. Such categories are generally prohibited unless the category is relevant to the main activity of a person. For example, the category "Jewish mathematicians" is not permitted as there is no such thing as "Jewish mathematics", but "Jewish musicians" is permitted for only those who have contributed to Jewish music (disregarding the ethnicity of the musician). Generic ethnic categories such as "Russians" or "Ukrainians" are not permitted.

The Russian Wikipedia has used automated scripts to create articles.

Administrators are elected through a vote; a minimal quorum of 30 voters and 66% of support votes are required if the request is to be considered successful. Administrators who have been inactive (have used any administrative tools such as the "delete" or "block" buttons less than 25 times) for six months lose their privileges by an Arbitration Committee determination.

[edit] History

The Russian Wikipedia was created on May 20, 2001 in the first wave of non-English Wikipedias, along with editions in Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, German, Esperanto, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

The first edit of the Russian Wikipedia was on May 24, 2001 and consisted of the line "Russia is a great land". The following edit changed it to the joke: "Russia is the natural environment for elephants (with big ears and high passability, see Mammoth). [3]

For a long time development was slow (especially since some left for WikiZnanie), but in a year from February 2005 to February 2006 it surpassed nine editions in other languages, i.e. Catalan, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Finnish, Norwegian, Chinese, Esperanto and Danish Wikipedias.

In 2006 and 2007, the Russian Wikipedia won the "Science and education" category of the "Runet Prize" (Russian: Премия Рунета) award, supervised[4] by the Russian government agency FAPMC.

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[edit] Content

Some of the biggest categories included:

10,161 articles contained material from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.

Source: Категории, на которые больше всего ссылок

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Russian Wikipedia edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



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