Russian Wikipedia
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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 | No |
| Registration | Optional |
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 is currently one of the largest and fastest growing Wikipedias. On May 19, 2008, it became the 10th largest Wikipedia by size and on February 25, 2010, it passed the 500,000 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]
Policies
Rules in Russian Wikipedia are not regarded as flexible in disputes as they are on the English project[citation needed]. Difficult issues are resolved through an arbitration committee which handles content disputes, blocks users or prohibit certain users from editing articles on certain topics. Misuse of administrator privileges is typically appealed through the arbitration committee because only this authority has the power to remove administrator flags.
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.[3] 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 used.
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.
The arbitration committee has on several occasions blocked users for behavior outside Wikipedia, for example, for critical blog comments about other Wikipedia users. In addition, an administator of the Russian Wikipedia was desysoped for being a domestic partner of vandal and for splashing one of the administrators with a glass of water at one of the Wikimeetings.[4] Such blocks have proven to be quite controversial, and as a result, a major discussion to establish whether a user can be blocked for external behavior took place in February 2010.[5]
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 nation". The following edit changed it to the joke: "Russia is the land where elephants (the big-eared, all-terrain capable type, see Mammoth) originated."[6]
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[7] by the Russian government agency FAPMC.
Timeline
- On November 7, 2002, the main page was created [8]
- 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.
- On November 27, 2007, Russian Wikipedia received National Runet Award on Educational section.
- On March 17, 2008, the 250,000th article was created.
- On July 18, 2008, the 300,000th article was created.
- On January 22, 2009, the 350,000th article was created.
- On April 18, 2009, the 380,000th article was created.
- On June 16, 2009, the 400,000th article was created.
- On February 25, 2010, the 500,000th article was created.
Content
Some of the biggest categories included:
- 45,665 biographical articles
- 24,276 human settlements articles
- 11,144 film articles
- 7,895 NGC astronomical articles
- 2,961 surname articles
- 2,750 animal articles
- 2,012 events by year articles
10,161 articles contained material from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
Source: Категории, на которые больше всего ссылок
References
- ^ Wikimedia Report Card August 2009 Retrieved on 2009-10-12
- ^ Russian Wikipedia's press release on Runet Prize (November 2006)
- ^ See Russian Wikipedia guidelines Википедия:Категоризация (Wikipedia:Categorization) and Википедия:Критерии категоризации персоналий по государственной принадлежности (Wikipedia:Criteria for categorization of people by citizenship)
- ^ Википедия:Заявки на арбитраж/Вневикипедийные события
- ^ Википедия:Опросы/Блокировки за действия на внешних ресурсах
- ^ Википедия:История нашего раздела (Wikipedia:The history of our language edition)
- ^ Template:Ru iconMajor award of Russian Internet became a state one – Lenta.Ru, August 29, 2005
- ^ First currently-kept Main Page of November 7, 2002
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