Russian Wikipedia
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Screenshot  The homepage of the Russian Wikipedia. | |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Russian |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | http://ru.wikipedia.org/ |
| Commercial | Charitable |
| Registration | Optional |
The Russian Wikipedia (Russian: Русская Википедия) is the Russian language edition of Wikipedia. It has over 1,992,000 articles. It was founded on 20 May 2001. By May 2008 it became the 10th largest Wikipedia by size and in February 2011 it ranked 8th. It is the largest Slavic Wikipedia, surpassing the Polish Wikipedia eightfold by the parameter of depth.[1]
Policies
Difficult issues are resolved through the Arbitration Committee, which handles content disputes, blocks users or prohibits certain users from editing articles on certain topics.[2]
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 become inactive (i.e. have not used administrative tools, such as "delete" or "block" buttons, at least 25 times in six months) may lose their privileges by an Arbitration Committee decision.[3]
History
The Russian Wikipedia was created on 20 May 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 24 May 2001, and consisted of the line "Россия - великая страна" ("Russia is a great nation"). The following edit changed it to the joke: "Россия — родина слонов (ушастых, повышенной проходимости — см. мамонт)" ("Russia is the motherland of elephants (big-eared, improved cross-country capability, see Mammoth)"."[4]
For a long time development was slow (especially after some participants left for WikiZnanie), but in a year from February 2005 to February 2006 it surpassed nine editions in other languages - the Catalan, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Finnish, Norwegian, Chinese, Esperanto and Danish Wikipedias.
In 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010[5] the Russian Wikipedia won the "Science and education" category of the "Runet Prize" (Russian: Премия Рунета) award, supervised by the Russian government agency FAPMC.[6]
In 2010, the distinctive Wikipedia globe logo for the Russian Wikipedia was temporarily altered to include the number 600,000 (spread over two of the jigsaw pieces) to commemorate the 600,000 article milestone.
Controversy
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The Russian edition of PC Magazine has been in conflict with Russian Wikipedia since the middle 2009. Several articles criticizing the "bureaucratization", "sysop tyranny" and "low quality" of articles in RuWiki were published in the magazine.[7][8][9] The conflict ended up in PC Magazine/RE forbidding citation of its materials in the Russian Wikipedia.
Content
As of 10 December 2010, some of the biggest categories in the Russian Wikipedia are[10]:
- 127,063 biographical articles
- 109,639 human settlements articles
- 16,036 film articles
- 12,709 animal articles
- 12,143 surname articles
- 7,542 album articles
- 6,101 NGC astronomical articles
11,596 articles contain material from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
Timeline
- The main page was created on 7 November 2002[11]
- On 30 December 2004, the 10,000th article was created.
- On 23 December 2005, the 50,000th article was created.
- On 16 August 2006, the 100,000th article was created.
- On 29 November 2006, Russian Wikipedia received National Runet Award on Educational section.
- On 10 March 2007, the 150,000th article was created.
- On 4 September 2007, the 200,000th article was created.
- On 27 November 2007, Russian Wikipedia received National Runet Award on Educational section.
- On 17 March 2008, the 250,000th article was created.
- On 18 July 2008, the 300,000th article was created.
- On 22 January 2009, the 350,000th article was created.
- On 18 April 2009, the 380,000th article was created.
- On 16 June 2009, the 400,000th article was created.
- On 25 November 2009, Russian Wikipedia received National Runet Award on Science and Education section.[12]
- On 25 February 2010, the 500,000th article was created.
- On 8 October 2010, the 600,000th article was created.
- On 16 January 2011, the 650,000th article was created.
References
- ^ All Wikipedias ordered by number of articles
- ^ Template:Ru icon ru:WP:Arbitration Committee
- ^ Template:Ru icon ru:WP:Administrators (rus)
- ^ "В русской Википедии появилась 200-тысячная статья" (in Russian). Lenta.ru. 4 September 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
- ^ "Номинанты и Лауреаты 2010 года". Премии Рунета. Retrieved 2010-11-25.
- ^ "Главная премия российского интернета стала государственной" (in Russian). Lenta.ru. 29 August 2005. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
- ^ "Runet 2008: Failures of the year: ru.wikipedia.org" (in Russian). PC Magazine/RE. 3 November 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
- ^ Ryabtsev, Alexandr (7 November 2009). "«Википедия»: Платон или истина?" (in Russian). PC Magazine/RE. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
- ^ "Статистика: информативность русской «Википедии» в среднем в 3,1 раза хуже, чем английской" (in Russian). PC Magazine/RE. 17 June 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
- ^ Most linked categories
- ^ First currently-kept Main Page of 7 November 2002
- ^ Номинанты Премии Рунета — 2009. Интернет-проекты (in Russian)
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