Russian Wikipedia
The Russian Wikipedia (Russian: Википедия) is the Russian language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. On August 16, 2006, it reached the 100,000 article mark. On November 29, 2006, it was awarded the prestigious Russian state "Runet Prize" (Премия Рунета) in the science and education category. [1] On September 4, 2007, it reached 200,000 articles mark.
Policies
The Russian Wikipedia stresses policies and guidelines more than the English Wikipedia in many ways. Rules 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. There is no 3 Revert Rule rule in the Russian Wikipedia and blocks of articles also rather rare.
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.
History
The Russian Wikipedia was created May 20 2001 in the first wave of non-English Wikipedias, along with editions in Chinese, Dutch, German, Esperanto, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. For a long time development was slow, 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.
- On November 7 2002, the main page was created [2]
- On December 30, 2004, the 10,000th article was created.
- On December 23, 2005, the 50,000th article was created.
- On August 16, 2006, the 100,000th article was created.
- On November 29 2006, Russian Wikipedia received National Runet Award on Educational section.
- On March 10 2007, the 150,000th article was created.
- On September 4 2007, the 200,000th article was created.
Content
As of April 11, 2007, the wikipedia contained 164,941 articles. Some of the biggest categories included:
- ~29,500 biographical articles
- ~20,000 inhabited location articles
- ~10,600 film articles
- ~7,900 NGC astronomical articles
- ~2000 events by year articles
- 1670 surname articles
- ~1660 animal articles
- ~1000 album articles
9,660 articles contained material from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
Source: Категории, на которые больше всего ссылок
Conflicts
Edit wars in the Russian wikipedia happen most often in articles about religion, sexual minorities and the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Other conflicts have arisen over theories not accepted by the scientific establishment or considered non-notable, such as Fomenko's New Chronology or the creation of an artificial Siberian language in 2005.
See also
- WikiZnanie - a rival free encyclopedia based on several public domain works
References
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