Russian Wikipedia
Encyclopedia
The Russian Wikipedia is the Russian language
edition of Wikipedia
. It has over 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 surpassed 750,000 articles in August 2011. On 20 September 2011 Russian Wikipedia surpassed Japanese Wikipedia
by the number of articles and ranked 7th before being surpassed by the Dutch Wikipedia
on 21 October 2011.
It is the second largest Wikipedia written in a Slavic language
after the Polish Wikipedia
, although the Russian Wikipedia surpasses it eightfold by the parameter of depth. In addition, the Russian Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia written in the Cyrillic alphabet
.
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.
, 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 elephant
s (big-eared, improved cross-country capability, see Mammoth
)"."
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 the Russian Wikipedia won the "Science and education" category of the "Runet Prize
" award, supervised by the Russian government
agency FAPMC
.
has been in conflict with Russian Wikipedia since mid-2009. Several articles criticizing the "bureaucratization", "sysop tyranny" and "low quality" of articles in RuWiki were published in the magazine. The conflict ended up in PC Magazine/RE forbidding citation of its materials in the Russian Wikipedia and not allowing to access pages on Magazine/RE's site using a direct link from Wikipedia.
11,252 articles contain material from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
.
8,156 articles were translated from the English Wikipedia
.
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
edition of Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
. It has over 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 surpassed 750,000 articles in August 2011. On 20 September 2011 Russian Wikipedia surpassed Japanese Wikipedia
Japanese Wikipedia
is the Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. It has over articles, making it the ninth largest language edition of Wikipedia after the English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Russian editions. Started in September 2002, the edition attained...
by the number of articles and ranked 7th before being surpassed by the Dutch Wikipedia
Dutch Wikipedia
The Dutch Wikipedia is the Dutch-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. As of November 2011, the Dutch Wikipedia is the fourth-largest Wikipedia edition, with over articles.-History:...
on 21 October 2011.
It is the second largest Wikipedia written in a Slavic language
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...
after the Polish Wikipedia
Polish Wikipedia
Polish Wikipedia is the Polish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. The ninth-oldest edition of Wikipedia, it was started on September 26, 2001. With about articles, it is the seventh-largest Wikipedia edition, after the English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Spanish...
, although the Russian Wikipedia surpasses it eightfold by the parameter of depth. In addition, the Russian Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia written in the Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
.
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.Administrators are elected through a vote; a minimal quorum
Quorum
A quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly necessary to conduct the business of that group...
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.
History
The Russian Wikipedia was created on 20 May 2001 in the first wave of non-English Wikipedias, along with editions in CatalanCatalan Wikipedia
The Catalan Wikipedia is the Catalan language edition of Wikipedia. Founded on 16 March 2001 and reaching 200,000 articles by September 2009, it contains about articles, with active users as of . It was created just a few minutes after the first non-English Wikipedia, the German version...
, Chinese
Chinese Wikipedia
Chinese Wikipedia is the Chinese language edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Started in October 2002, Chinese Wikipedia had over 270,000 articles as of September 2009 and 383,391 articles as of November 7, 2011...
, Dutch
Dutch Wikipedia
The Dutch Wikipedia is the Dutch-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. As of November 2011, the Dutch Wikipedia is the fourth-largest Wikipedia edition, with over articles.-History:...
, German
German Wikipedia
The German Wikipedia is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and mostly publicly editable online encyclopedia.Founded in March 2001, it is the second-oldest and, with over articles, the second-largest edition of Wikipedia, behind the English Wikipedia...
, Esperanto
Esperanto Wikipedia
The Esperanto Wikipedia is the Esperanto edition of Wikipedia, which started in December 2001 as the eleventh edition of Wikipedia...
, French
French Wikipedia
The French Wikipedia is the French language edition of Wikipedia, spelt Wikipédia. This edition was started in March 2001, and has about articles as of , making it the third-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English-language and German-language editions...
, Hebrew
Hebrew Wikipedia
Hebrew Wikipedia is the Hebrew edition of Wikipedia. This edition began in July 2003 and has about articles as of .-Milestones:* July 8, 2003: The Hebrew edition of Wikipedia was launched....
, Italian
Italian Wikipedia
The Italian Wikipedia is the Italian-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was created on May 11, 2001 and first edited on June 11, 2001. As of 2011 it has over articles and more than registered accounts...
, Japanese
Japanese Wikipedia
is the Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. It has over articles, making it the ninth largest language edition of Wikipedia after the English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Russian editions. Started in September 2002, the edition attained...
, Portuguese
Portuguese Wikipedia
The Portuguese Wikipedia is a Portuguese language edition of Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia. It was the fifth edition of Wikipedia, started in June 2001. It is currently the tenth largest Wikipedia by article count, containing articles.From late 2004, the edition grew rapidly...
, Spanish
Spanish Wikipedia
The Spanish Wikipedia is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, online encyclopedia. It currently has articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on March 8, 2006. Currently, it is the 6th largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles, having surpassed Polish...
, and Swedish
Swedish Wikipedia
The Swedish Wikipedia is the Swedish language edition of Wikipedia. It was the third edition of Wikipedia, started in May 2001 alongside German Wikipedia, after English Wikipedia and Catalan Wikipedia...
.
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 elephant
Elephant
Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct...
s (big-eared, improved cross-country capability, see Mammoth
Mammoth
A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus. These proboscideans are members of Elephantidae, the family of elephants and mammoths, and close relatives of modern elephants. They were often equipped with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair...
)"."
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 the Russian Wikipedia won the "Science and education" category of the "Runet Prize
Runet Prize
Runet Prize is the national award of the Russian Federation. Its founder is Russian governmental agency FAPMC which oversees country's mass media....
" award, supervised by the Russian government
Politics of Russia
The politics of Russia take place in a framework of a federal semi-presidential republic. According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is head of state, and of a multi-party system with executive power exercised by the government, headed by the Prime Minister, who is appointed...
agency FAPMC
Rospechat
Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation is the regulating state agency within the hierarchy of modern Russian Government...
.
Controversy
The Russian edition of PC MagazinePC Magazine
PC Magazine is a computer magazine published by Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009...
has been in conflict with Russian Wikipedia since mid-2009. Several articles criticizing the "bureaucratization", "sysop tyranny" and "low quality" of articles in RuWiki were published in the magazine. The conflict ended up in PC Magazine/RE forbidding citation of its materials in the Russian Wikipedia and not allowing to access pages on Magazine/RE's site using a direct link from Wikipedia.
Content
As of 8 August 2011, some of the biggest categories (which contain more than 5,000 articles) in the Russian Wikipedia are:- 149,425 biographicalBiographyA biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...
articles - 127,285 human settlements articles
- 26,576 riverRiverA river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...
articles - 18,020 filmFilmA film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
articles - 14,200 surnameSurnameA surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
articles - 14,015 animalAnimalAnimals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and...
articles - 13,184 scientificScientistA scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...
articles - 12,011 footballers' articles
- 8,937 musicians'MusicianA musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
articles - 8,892 writers'WriterA writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
articles - 8,252 albumAlbumAn album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
articles - 6,460 company'sCompanyA company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...
articles - 6,290 plantPlantPlants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
articles - 6,207 NGCNew General CatalogueThe New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars is a well-known catalogue of deep sky objects in astronomy. It contains 7,840 objects, known as the NGC objects...
astronomical articles - 5,305 computer game articles
11,252 articles contain material from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary is, in its scope and style, the Russian counterpart to the Encyclopædia Britannica. It contains 121,240 articles, 7,800 images, and 235 maps...
.
8,156 articles were translated from the English Wikipedia
English Wikipedia
The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on 15 January 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with almost three times as many articles as the next...
.
Timeline
- The main page was created on 7 November 2002
- 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 AwardRunet PrizeRunet Prize is the national award of the Russian Federation. Its founder is Russian governmental agency FAPMC which oversees country's mass media....
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.
- On 25 February 2010, the 500,000th article was created.
- On 18 June 2010, the 550,000th article was created.
- On 8 October 2010, the 600,000th article was created.
- On 16 January 2011, the 650,000th article was created.
- On 12 April 2011, the 700,000th article was created.
- On 7 August 2011, the 750,000th article was created.
External links
Russian Language Wikipedia Russian Wikipedia mobile version- The embassy of the Russian-language Wikipedia