Russian-language Wikipedia
  Русскоязычная Википедия Russian-language Wikipedia |
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| свободная энциклопедия | |
| Internet encyclopedia | |
| languages | Russian |
| operator | Wikimedia Foundation |
| editorial staff | Wikipedia community |
| items | approx. 1,600,000 |
| Registration | optional |
| On-line | May 2001 (currently active) |
| //ru.wikipedia.org | |
The Russian-language Wikipedia ( Russian Русскоязычная Википедия , also Русская Википедия ) is the edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Russian .
With more than 1.60 million articles in February 2020, it is considered the seventh largest language version of Wikipedia and the largest edition in a Slavic language . In terms of overall usage, it is the third most widely read language version of Wikipedia after English and German .
The Russian-language Wikipedia is the most-read edition of Wikipedia in all member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States and is also very popular in numerous other countries, including Georgia , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Israel and Mongolia .
history
The Russian-language Wikipedia was founded in May 2001, but developed very slowly in the first few years of its existence and also competed for a long time with the similar project WikiZnanie ("WikiWissen"). The first post, which was published on May 24, 2001, consisted of one sentence: "Россия - великая страна" (translated roughly "Russia is a big country").
growth
On December 30, 2004, the 10,000th Article published. The Russian language Wikipedia has grown rapidly since 2005 and has become one of the largest language versions of Wikipedia. In terms of the number of articles, the Russian-language Wikipedia has since overtaken numerous other language versions. In August 2006 it had over 100,000 articles, in September 2007 200,000 articles were recorded. In May 2008, the Russian-language Wikipedia was in tenth place among the Wikipedia language versions in terms of number of articles. In February 2010 it passed the 500,000 item mark, in April 2011 it was 700,000, in September 2012 it was more than 900,000 items. In December 2012, it overtook both Spanish and Polish-language Wikipedia and at the time it was the sixth largest edition of the online encyclopedia, behind Italian-language Wikipedia . It has a total of about one million registered users. On May 11, 2013, the Russian-language Wikipedia finally hit over a million articles.
Awards
In 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010 the Russian language Wikipedia won the Runet Prize in the “Science and Education” category.
Internal quality control
According to the available internal quality indicators, the Russian-language Wikipedia is one of the leading language versions. According to the “Depth” indicator, which indicates the frequency with which articles are edited and the work related to the articles (discussions, navigation templates, projects), the Russian-language Wikipedia ranks sixth among the twenty leading language editions. Measured against the “list of articles that every language version should have”, it is in second place with a slight gap to first place.
The Russian-language edition has pages where users can have other users rate the encyclopedic quality of their written articles. Articles of particularly high quality can be given the status of "selected article" or "good article" after being nominated. As of May 11, 2013, the Russian-language Wikipedia had 622 "selected" and 1602 "good" articles. It also had 422 “selected” lists and portals. As in the German-language edition , the mechanism of viewing in the Russian-language Wikipedia ensures that only those edits can be viewed as stable article versions that have been checked by established users ("viewers").
Dispute over internet censorship
In July 2012, the Russian-language Wikipedia was unavailable for 24 hours in protest against planned Internet censorship measures in Russia ( State Duma bill 89417-6 ). According to official statements, the draft law served to combat child pornography and terrorism , but Wikimedia Russia believes it is too vague and opens up extensive opportunities for arbitrary censorship on the Internet . This "strike" of the Russian Wikipedia was subsequently judged as grossly illegal by the arbitration tribunal of the Russian Wikipedia. The responsible administrators of the Russian Wikipedia lost their administrator rights after the arbitration decision.
On August 25, 2015, Internet access to Wikipedia was temporarily blocked, but this was quickly lifted and was only effective in parts of Russia. A Russian court had ordered the blocking of an article on charas (an Indian form of hashish ) for violating intoxicant regulations. The order was lifted after a short time. Critics of the Russian government's media policy have suggested that this may have been a test case. The Russian authorities who were involved in the monitoring of the Internet, be secure hypertext transfer protocol HTTPS , that of Wikipedia, Facebook and Gmail is used an eyesore because it through the monitoring program SORM that the Russian domestic security service FSB is used not to be decoded. The blocking of individual pages on servers that use the HTTPS protocol means that some telecommunications service providers are no longer able to offer the entire website content of the HTTPS server and may have to switch to a non-secure hypertext transmission protocol. On September 1, 2015, a regulation came into force in Russia that obliges Internet service providers such as Facebook to save all data of Russian users on servers in Russia (see Runet ). Here, too, fears were expressed that the Russian authorities wanted to secure access to user data. On November 1, 2019, a law on an "independent Internet" came into force under state control.
In November 2019, President Putin called for Wikipedia to be replaced by a local online lexicon, in which “reliable information” should be presented in a “modern way”. The equivalent of EUR 24 million is to be made available to create this alternative. Efforts for such a Russian online encyclopedia have been going on for years.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Meta: List of Wikipedias Wikimedia statistics
- ↑ Wikimedia usage statistics
- ↑ Wikimedia country statistics
- ↑ http://www.premiaruneta.ru/laureates/2010/
- ^ List of Wikipedias
- ↑ List of Wikipedias by sample of articles
- ^ Wikipedia down in protest in Russia. Euronews, July 10, 2012, accessed April 29, 2017 .
- ↑ a b ru: Арбитраж: Опрос «Забастовка против цензуры в Рунете»
- ↑ Shaun Walker: Russia briefly bans Wikipedia over page relating to drug use. The Guardian, August 25, 2015, accessed April 29, 2017 .
- ↑ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/11/01/russias-sovereign-internet-law-comes-into-force-a68002
- ↑ Putin calls for a Russian Wikipedia alternative. In: orf.at . November 5, 2019, accessed November 5, 2019.
- ↑ https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2014-11/wikipedia-alternative-russland