The Ruwiki website has been operating since June 2023, but only in test mode. The official launch of the full version of the Russian online encyclopedia took place on January 15, explains the Russian news agency. The decision to create a new platform was issued in May 2022 by the president himself.
Russia launched Ruwiki. Wikipedia’s Russian competitor
The Ruwiki website explains that there are almost 2 million articles in Russian on the site. The encyclopedia has been described as a “large-scale free knowledge project.” Ruwiki, as added, brings together experts and ordinary users. “Anyone can become an author of Ruwiki, but only experts guarantee the verification of materials,” it was noted.
This is what the new ‘Russian Wikipedia’ looks like Graphics: Ruwiki.ru
Ruwiki is currently available in several languages, including: in Altai, Bashkir, Chechen, Chuvash, Moksha, Mari, Erza, Russian, Yakut, Tatar, Tuvin and Udmurt. It was also announced that at least 10 more language sections will be created in 2024. The creators of the Russian online encyclopedia do not want to disclose the sources of financing or the costs of the project. It is known, however, that the head of Ruwiki is Vladimir Mediejko, who previously worked for the Russian-speaking company.
The Russian website told the “” newspaper that since the launch of the test version, the most frequently read articles were, among others: list of deaths in 2023, escalation of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the highest-grossing films in and “Russian military operation in Ukraine”.
There is a war in Ukraine. And Russia wants Wikipedia to remove “false information”
Russia is at war with Ukraine, but also with Wikipedia. The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) reported that in 2023 a total of 12 administrative protocols were drawn up against the Wikimedia Foundation (owner of, among others, Wikipedia) in connection with the failure to remove “illegal materials” on its website. website. The total amount of fines amounted to 22.4 million rubles. Roskomnadzor claims that Wikipedia, among others, refuses to remove “false information” about the course of the “special military operation” in Ukraine.
Source: Gazeta
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