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The '''Russian Misplaced Pages''' ({{lang-ru|Русская Википедия}}) is the ] edition of ]. 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 Misplaced Pages by size and on February 25, 2010, it ]. As of August 2009, yearly traffic was growing at a rate of 117%, nearly twice that of the second fastest growing, ].<ref> Retrieved on 2009-10-12</ref> | |||
The '''Russian Misplaced Pages''' ({{langx|ru|Русская Википедия|Russkaya Vikipediya}}) is the ] edition of ]. As of {{Currentmonth}} {{Currentyear}}, it has ]. It was started on 11 May 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000116.html |title= new language wikis |first=Jason |last=Richey |access-date=29 February 2016 |date=11 May 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106094154/https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000116.html |archive-date=6 January 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> In October 2015, it became the sixth-largest Misplaced Pages by the number of articles. It has the sixth-largest number of edits ({{Format price|{{NUMBEROF|EDITS|ru}}}}). In June 2020, it was the world's sixth most visited language Misplaced Pages (after the ], the ], the ], the ] and the ]s).<ref>, Wikimedia Statistics, 11 July 2020.</ref> As of November 2024, it is the third most viewed Misplaced Pages, after the English and Japanese editions.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/vital-signs/#projects=eswiki,itwiki,enwiki,jawiki,dewiki,ruwiki,frwiki/metrics=Pageviews |title=Vital Signs: Pageviews |access-date=4 December 2024 |website=Wikimedia}}</ref> | |||
On November 29, 2006, it was awarded the ] "]" (Премия Рунета) in the ] and ] category.<ref name="ruwiki"></ref> | |||
It is the largest Misplaced Pages written in any ], surpassing its nearest rival, the ], by 20% in terms of the number of articles and fivefold by the parameter of ].<ref>]</ref> In addition, the Russian Misplaced Pages is the largest Misplaced Pages written in ]<ref>]</ref> or in a script other than the ]. In April 2016, the project had 3,377 active editors who made at least five contributions in that month, ranking third behind the English and Spanish versions. As of 2024, it is the most popular Misplaced Pages in many ], including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, ], Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, and the second most popular in others.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} | |||
==Policies== | |||
Rules in Russian Misplaced Pages are not regarded as flexible in disputes as they are on the English project{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}}. Difficult issues are resolved through an ] 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. | |||
Since the early 2010s, the Russian Misplaced Pages and its ]s have experienced numerous and increasing threats of ] and country-wide enforcement of ] by the ], as well as several attempts at ], ], and ],<ref name="ru.wikimedia.org"/><ref name="bbctechnology-18781869"/><ref name="Euronews10072012"/><ref name="www.nytimes.com"/><ref name="rbth.ru"/> more recently during the ]<ref name="Botter-2022">{{cite journal |author1-last=Stukal |author1-first=Denis |author2-last=Sanovich |author2-first=Sergey |author3-last=Bonneau |author3-first=Richard |author4-last=Tucker |author4-first=Joshua A. |date=February 2022 |title=Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/D8A8A74976408CF7EC329827AFFFD3FC/S0003055421001507a.pdf/div-class-title-why-botter-how-pro-government-bots-fight-opposition-in-russia-div.pdf |journal=] |location=] and ] |publisher=] on behalf of the ] |volume=116 |issue=1 |pages=843–857 |doi=10.1017/S0003055421001507 |doi-access=free |issn=1537-5943 |lccn=08009025 |oclc=805068983 |s2cid=247038589 |access-date=10 March 2022}}</ref><ref name="gizmodo.com"/><ref name="putins_office"/><ref name="Zeveleva 2014"/> and the ].<ref name="VICE 2022">{{cite magazine |last=Cole |first=Samantha |date=1 March 2022 |title=Russia Threatens to Block Misplaced Pages for Stating Facts About Its War Casualties, Editors Say |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvnpq5/russia-threatens-to-block-wikipedia-for-stating-facts-about-its-war-casualties-editors-say |url-status=live |magazine=] |location=] |publisher=] |issn=1077-6788 |oclc=30856250 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302065323/https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvnpq5/russia-threatens-to-block-wikipedia-for-stating-facts-about-its-war-casualties-editors-say |archive-date=2 March 2022 |access-date=2 March 2022}}</ref> | |||
The Russian Misplaced Pages accepts ] 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 ], ] or ].<ref>See Russian Misplaced Pages guidelines ] (''Misplaced Pages:Categorization'') and ] (''Misplaced Pages:Criteria for categorization of people by citizenship'')</ref> Such categories are generally prohibited unless the category is relevant to the main activity of a person. For example, the category "]ish 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 ] (disregarding the ethnicity of the musician). Generic ethnic categories such as "]" or "]" are not used. | |||
==Policies== | |||
The Russian Misplaced Pages has used automated scripts to create articles. | |||
Difficult issues are resolved through the ], which handles content disputes, blocks users or prohibits certain users from editing articles on certain topics.<ref>{{in lang|ru}} ]</ref> | |||
Administrators are elected through a vote; a |
Administrators (currently {{NUMBEROF|ADMINS|ru|N}}) are elected through a vote; a minimum ] 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.<ref>{{in lang|ru}} ]</ref> | ||
==Content== | |||
The arbitration committee has on several occasions blocked users for behavior outside Misplaced Pages, for example, for critical blog comments about other Misplaced Pages users. In addition, an administator of the Russian Misplaced Pages 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.<ref>]</ref> 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.<ref>]</ref> | |||
As of 2024, some of the biggest categories (which contain more than 5,000 articles) in the Russian Misplaced Pages are:<ref>]</ref> | |||
*176,411 biographical articles. Although the Western ] (given name(s) followed by family name) is generally used in Russian, the Russian Misplaced Pages uses lexical order (last name, comma, given name(s) and also the ] for most people from ex-Soviet countries) for all articles on non-fictional persons. This order has been traditionally used in major Russian-language encyclopedias, like the '']''. | |||
*144,322 ]s articles. | |||
*28,187 river articles | |||
*19,302 film articles | |||
*16,925 animal articles | |||
*16,517 ] | |||
*16,133 surname articles | |||
*13,936 ] articles | |||
*11,247 Musicians' articles | |||
*10,755 Writers' articles | |||
*9,243 album articles | |||
*9,237 articles on recipients of the ] | |||
*7,307 Company's articles | |||
*6,734 plant articles | |||
*6,574 street articles | |||
*6,265 ] astronomical articles | |||
*6,157 actors articles | |||
*5,719 artist articles | |||
*5,580 music group articles | |||
*5,292 ] articles | |||
10,340 articles contain material from the '']''. More than 47,000 articles were translated from the ]. | |||
==History== | |||
The Russian Misplaced Pages was created on May 20, 2001 in the first wave of non-English Wikipedias, along with editions in ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. | |||
===Namespaces=== | |||
The first edit of the Russian Misplaced Pages 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 ]s (the big-eared, all-terrain capable type, see ]) originated.''"<ref>] (''Misplaced Pages:The history of our language edition'')</ref> | |||
In addition to common Misplaced Pages ]s, the Russian Misplaced Pages has three custom ones: "Incubator" (# 102–103) – which is used as a training camp for new users and their first articles, "Project" (# 104–105) – for ] and "Arbitration" (# 106–107) – for ] requests. | |||
=== User pages === | |||
For a long time development was slow (especially since some left for ]), 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 user pages, users are able to see their ''outreach'', the cumulative view count of pages they have edited. | |||
==Reception== | |||
In 2006 and 2007, the Russian Misplaced Pages won the "Science and education" category of the "]" (Russian: '']'') award, supervised<ref>{{ru icon}} – ], August 29, 2005</ref> by the ] agency ]. | |||
{{Expand section|date=July 2019}} | |||
In 2015, {{ill|Roman Leibov|ru|Лейбов, Роман Григорьевич|et|Roman Leibov}}, a professor at the ], in an interview opined that articles related to humanities in the Russian Misplaced Pages are of considerably inferior quality compared to English Misplaced Pages, and some articles even deteriorate with time. He suggested that this effect is due to overzealous policing of intellectual property rights by the community and bemoaned poor editing skills of some Wikipedians.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://gefter.ru/archive/15359|title=Википедия – знакомая и неизвестная|last=Усыскин|first=Лев|date=5 June 2015|publisher=Гефтер|access-date=7 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919155712/http://gefter.ru/archive/15359|archive-date=19 September 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
In 2022, the '']'' praised the Russian Misplaced Pages for "filling the information vacuum" while "independent media abandon Russia or are censored" during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Elder |first=Jeff |date=8 March 2022 |title=Russia's Misplaced Pages volunteers risk their freedom for truth |url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/archives/russia-s-wikipedia-volunteers-risk-their-freedom-for-truth/article_b0c672cb-971f-5cc1-bccc-c703eb0346ce.html |access-date=16 July 2022 |website=] |language=en}}</ref> For the safety of Wikipedians, all editors' names in the page about the Russian invasion in Ukraine are routinely erased.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 January 2023 |title=Вторжение России на Украину (с 2022): история изменений |url=https://ru.wikipedia.org/search/?title=%D0%92%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%83_(%D1%81_2022)&action=history |access-date=25 February 2023 |website=Russian Misplaced Pages |language=ru |archive-date=19 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119092602/https://ru.wikipedia.org/search/?title=%D0%92%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%83_(%D1%81_2022)&action=history |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> | |||
===Timeline=== | |||
* On November 7, 2002, the main page was created <ref name="main page"></ref> | |||
* 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 Misplaced Pages received ] 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 Misplaced Pages 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. | |||
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* The main page was created on 7 November 2002.<ref name="main page">{{cite web|url=http://ru.wikipedia.org/search/?oldid=1|title=Базовая статья|access-date=25 March 2015}}</ref> | |||
* 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, the Russian Misplaced Pages received the ] in the 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, the Russian Misplaced Pages received the National Runet Award in the 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 16 June 2009, the 400,000th article was created. | |||
* On 25 November 2009, the Russian Misplaced Pages received the National Runet Award in the Science and Education section.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015123321/http://nom.premiaruneta.ru/2009/site/approved/#3 |date=15 October 2009 }} (in Russian)</ref> | |||
* On 25 February 2010, the 500,000th article was created. | |||
* On 8 October 2010, the 600,000th article was created. | |||
* On 12 April 2011, the 700,000th article was created. | |||
* On 10 December 2011, the 800,000th article was created. | |||
* On 8 September 2012, the 900,000th article was created.<ref name="1M"/> | |||
* On 11 May 2013, the 1,000,000th article was created.<ref name="1M">{{cite news|url=http://cit.ua/article/27310/|title=Русский раздел Википедии преодолел рубеж в 1 миллион статей|date=11 May 2013|work=cit.ua|publisher=Сервисные интернет технологии|access-date=12 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706105750/http://cit.ua/article/27310/|archive-date=6 July 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
* On 27 March 2014, the 1,100,000th article was created. | |||
* On 19 March 2015, the 1,200,000th article was created. | |||
* On 29 March 2016, the 1,300,000th article was created. | |||
* On 14 June 2017, the 1,400,000th article was created. | |||
* On 1 October 2018, the 1,500,000th article was created.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://roskomsvoboda.org/42084/ |title=Русскоязычный раздел Википедии преодолел рубеж в 1 500 000 статей |website=RosKomSvoboda |language=ru |date=1 October 2018 |access-date=2 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002215240/https://roskomsvoboda.org/42084/ |archive-date=2 October 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
* On 26 February 2020, the 1,600,000th article was created. | |||
* On 17 February 2021, the 1,700,000th article was created. | |||
* On 4 March 2022, the 1,800,000th article was created. | |||
* On 18 September 2024, the 2,000,000th article was created. | |||
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* 7,895 ] astronomical articles | |||
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The first edit of the Russian Misplaced Pages was on 24 May 2001, and consisted of the line {{lang|ru|"Россия – великая страна"}} ("''Russia is a great nation''"). The following edit changed it to the joke: {{lang|ru|"Россия – родина слонов (ушастых, повышенной проходимости – см. мамонт)"}} ("''Russia is the motherland of elephants (big-eared, improved cross-country capability, see ].''")<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lenta.ru/news2/2007/09/04/wikipedia/index.htm|script-title=ru:В русской Википедии появилась 200-тысячная статья|date=4 September 2007|publisher=]|language=ru|access-date=16 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208020858/http://lenta.ru/news2/2007/09/04/wikipedia/index.htm|archive-date=8 February 2010}}</ref> | |||
For a long time development was slow (especially after some participants left for WikiZnanie), but in the 12-month period between February 2005 and 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<ref name="ПР2010">{{cite web|url=http://www.premiaruneta.ru/laureates/2010/|title=Номинанты и Лауреаты 2010 года|work=Премии Рунета|access-date=25 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827031323/http://www.premiaruneta.ru/laureates/2010/|archive-date=27 August 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> the Russian Misplaced Pages won the "Science and education" category of the "]" ({{langx|ru|link=no|Премия Рунета}}) award, supervised by the ] agency ].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://lenta.ru/news/2005/08/29/premia/_Printed.htm|script-title=ru:Главная премия российского интернета стала государственной|date=29 August 2005|publisher=Lenta.ru|language=ru|access-date=15 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612011913/http://lenta.ru/news/2005/08/29/premia/_Printed.htm|archive-date=12 June 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
===Troubles with the Russian government=== | |||
{{main|Blocking of Misplaced Pages in Russia|Censorship in Russia}} | |||
{{further|Internet censorship in Russia|Mass surveillance in Russia|Russian web brigades}} | |||
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On 10 July 2012, Russian Misplaced Pages closed access to its content for 24 hours in protest against proposed amendments to Russia's Information Act (]) regulating the accessibility of Internet-based information to children. Among other things, the bill stipulates the creation and country-wide enforcement of ]s, which would block access to forbidden sites. Several aspects of this amendment drew criticism from various civil rights activists and Internet providers.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} | |||
Supporters of the amendment stated that it is aimed only at widely prohibited content such as ] and similar information, but the Russian ] has declared that conditions for determining the content falling under this law will create a thing like the "]". They further claimed that existing Russian legal practice demonstrates a high likelihood of a worst-case scenario, resulting in a country-wide ban of Misplaced Pages.<ref name="ru.wikimedia.org">{{cite web|url=https://ru.wikimedia.org/Забастовка_Википедии_на_русском_языке|title=Забастовка Википедии на русском языке|date=10 July 2012|access-date=10 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711231309/http://ru.wikimedia.org/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B5|archive-date=11 July 2012|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="bbctechnology-18781869">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18781869|title=Russian Misplaced Pages goes dark in protest at censor law|date=10 July 2012|publisher=]|access-date=10 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710191520/http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18781869|archive-date=10 July 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> The second and the third readings of the law were held in the ] on 11 July; no essential corrections were introduced. The law will come into force after three readings in the State Duma, one reading in the Federation Council and presidential approval.<ref name="Euronews10072012">{{cite news|url=http://www.euronews.com/2012/07/10/wikipedia-down-in-protest-in-russia/|title=Misplaced Pages down in protest in Russia|date=10 July 2012|publisher=]|access-date=10 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712171605/http://www.euronews.com/2012/07/10/wikipedia-down-in-protest-in-russia/|archive-date=12 July 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
On 10 July, ], ] announced in his Twitter account, that the organization of the List of the prohibited websites (that was sited on the ]) will be suspended until 1 November 2012.<ref name="Euronews10072012"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/nnikiforov|title=Николай Никифоров|access-date=25 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324100532/https://twitter.com/nnikiforov|archive-date=24 March 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> On the same day ], a Duma deputy and the head of the subcommittee which sponsored the law, said that the blackout is an attempt to blackmail the Duma and was sponsored by the "pedophile lobby".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://slon.ru/russia/elena_mizulina_vikipediya_prikrytie_pedofilskogo_lobbi-809860.xhtml|script-title=ru:Елена Мизулина: Википедия – прикрытие педофильского лобби|last=Доброхотов|first=Роман|author2=Никита Лашук|author3=Маргарита Белодедова|title=Republic.ru |date=10 July 2012|publisher=Slon.ru|language=ru|access-date=12 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712121513/http://slon.ru/russia/elena_mizulina_vikipediya_prikrytie_pedofilskogo_lobbi-809860.xhtml|archive-date=12 July 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Also, since 2012, ] resulted in reduced funding available for the Russian Misplaced Pages and its volunteers, who no longer can receive financial aid from abroad, including their share of funds raised through global Misplaced Pages fundraisers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.calvertjournal.com/opinion/show/2967/wikipedia-russian-government-edits|title=Knowledge is power: Why is the Russian government editing Misplaced Pages?|access-date=17 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142833/http://www.calvertjournal.com/opinion/show/2967/wikipedia-russian-government-edits|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
On 5 April 2013, it was confirmed by a spokesperson for the ] that Misplaced Pages had been blacklisted over the article "]" ("]") on Russian Misplaced Pages.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130405/180469665.html|title=Russia May Block Misplaced Pages Access Over Narcotics Article|publisher=]|access-date=8 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410031251/http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130405/180469665.html|archive-date=10 April 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="rbth.ru">{{cite news|url=http://rbth.ru/news/2013/04/05/russian_media_regulator_confirms_wikipedia_blacklisted_24706.html|title=Russian media regulator confirms Misplaced Pages blacklisted|publisher=]|date=5 April 2013|access-date=8 April 2013|archive-date=7 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007080431/https://www.rbth.com/news/2013/04/05/russian_media_regulator_confirms_wikipedia_blacklisted_24706.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 31 March 2013, '']'' reported that Russia was 'Selectively Blocking Internet',<ref name="www.nytimes.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/technology/russia-begins-selectively-blocking-internet-content.html?_r=0|author=Andrew E. Kramer|title=Russians Selectively Blocking Internet|work=]|date=31 March 2013|access-date=8 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404004908/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/technology/russia-begins-selectively-blocking-internet-content.html?_r=0|archive-date=4 April 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> though Misplaced Pages itself was not blocked at that time. | |||
Articles on Russian Misplaced Pages, and also on other Misplaced Pages versions, concerning the ] and the ] have been targeted by Internet propaganda outlets associated with the Putin-led ].<ref name="Botter-2022"/><ref name="gizmodo.com"/><ref name="putins_office"/><ref name="Zeveleva 2014"/> Some of the edits were spotted by a ] which monitors Misplaced Pages edits made from Russian government IP addresses.<ref name="gizmodo.com">{{cite web|url=https://gizmodo.com/a-tweetbot-caught-the-russian-govt-editing-flight-mh17-1607483459|title=A Tweetbot Caught the Russian Gov't Editing Flight MH17 Misplaced Pages Info|first=Robert|last=Sorokanich|date=18 July 2014 |access-date=3 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115045613/http://gizmodo.com/a-tweetbot-caught-the-russian-govt-editing-flight-mh17-1607483459|archive-date=15 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="putins_office">{{cite news|last=Dewey|first=Caitlin|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/07/21/flight_mh17s_wikipedia_page_edited_from_ip_address_associated_with_putins_office.html|title=Flight MH17's Misplaced Pages page edited by Russian government; An IP address associated with Vladimir Putin's office has made multiple edits to the Misplaced Pages page for the MH17 flight page|work=]|agency=The Washington Post|date=21 July 2014|access-date=10 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141246/https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/07/21/flight_mh17s_wikipedia_page_edited_from_ip_address_associated_with_putins_office.html|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Zeveleva 2014">{{cite news|last=Zeveleva|first=Olga|url=http://calvertjournal.com/comment/show/2967/wikipedia-russian-government-edits|title=Knowledge is power: why is the Russian government editing Misplaced Pages?|work=The Calvert Journal|date=6 August 2014|access-date=3 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118071700/http://calvertjournal.com/comment/show/2967/wikipedia-russian-government-edits|archive-date=18 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
The entire Russian Misplaced Pages was blocked in the Russian Federation for a few hours in August 2015 due to the contents of the article on ].<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150828062223/http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/08/25/world/europe/ap-eu-russia-wikipedia-ban.html|date=28 August 2015}}, The Associated Press</ref> | |||
In November 2019, Russian president ] called for a government-run alternative to Misplaced Pages. ''The Guardian'' reported state funds had already been allocated according to official documents published the previous September. The new electronic alternative was intended to be based on the '']''.<ref name="ruwp">{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/05/vladimir-putin-calls-for-reliable-russian-version-of-wikipedia|title=Vladimir Putin Calls for 'Reliable' Russian Version of Misplaced Pages|work=]|agency=AFP|date=5 November 2019|access-date=5 November 2019}}</ref> According to the London '']'', the proposal had been abandoned by mid-May 2020,<ref>{{cite news|last=Bennetts|first=Marc|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kremlin-drops-plans-for-state-approved-wikipedia-mvnc0wnkf|title=Kremlin drops plans for state-approved Misplaced Pages|work=The Times|date=15 May 2020|access-date=15 May 2020}} {{subscription required}}</ref> however, according to ''Great Russian Encyclopedia'' employee Yekaterina Chukovskaya, only the working group was disbanded and work on the project as a whole will continue.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://meduza.io/news/2020/05/13/vlasti-rossii-otkazalis-ot-idei-sozdavat-analog-vikipedii-za-dva-milliarda-rubley |title=Власти России отказались от идеи создавать аналог "Википедии" за два миллиарда рублей |language=ru |publisher=] |date=13 May 2020 |access-date=16 May 2020}}</ref> | |||
In December 2023, the Russian ] voted unanimously to dissolve itself after its director had been warned by authorities that he would be designated a "foreign agent". He also stated that he was forced to resign from the university where he worked.<ref name="Wikimedia Russia Shuts Down Amid 'Foreign Agent' Threats">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=The Moscow |title=Wikimedia Russia Shuts Down Amid 'Foreign Agent' Threats |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/19/wikimedia-russia-shuts-down-amid-foreign-agent-threats-a83487 |access-date=20 December 2023 |work=] |date=19 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
==== 2022 fork ==== | |||
In June 2022, Runiversalis, a pro-government partial fork of the Russian Misplaced Pages, was launched. The site launched with only 9000 articles, a tiny subset of the 1.85 million articles on the Russian Misplaced Pages, with many articles being taken unmodified from the Russian Misplaced Pages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Runiversalis, un Wikipédia russe, approuvé par l'État |url=https://actualitte.com/article/107530/international/runiversalis-un-wikipedia-russe-approuve-par-l-etat |access-date=25 August 2022 |website=ActuaLitté.com |language=fr-FR|first=Barbara |last=Fasseur}}</ref> | |||
====Censorship and disinformation during the Russo-Ukrainian War==== | |||
{{Main|Russian information war against Ukraine}} | |||
{{Further|Disinformation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine}} | |||
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In February and March 2022, in the first week following the ] and breakout of the ], Russian Misplaced Pages editors warned their readers and fellow editors of several, reiterated attempts by the ]-led ] of ], ], ] ], and disruptive editing towards an article listing of ].<ref name="VICE 2022"/> The Misplaced Pages was generally considered under threat in Russia.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Elder |first1=Jeff |title=Russia's Misplaced Pages volunteers risk their freedom for truth |url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/fixes/how-wikipedia-volunteers-in-russia-are-beating-disinformation/ |work=] |date=8 March 2022}}</ref> | |||
On 1 March 2022, ], the Russian agency for monitoring and censoring mass media, wrote to the ] requesting for removal of the article "{{lang|ru|]|italic=no}}" ("]").<ref>{{Cite news |date=1 March 2022 |title=Moscow threatens to block Russian-language Misplaced Pages over invasion article |work=National Post |url=https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/crime-pmn/moscow-threatens-to-block-russian-language-wikipedia-over-invasion-article |url-status=live |access-date=2 March 2022 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220301/https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/crime-pmn/moscow-threatens-to-block-russian-language-wikipedia-over-invasion-article |archive-date=1 March 2022}}</ref> | |||
On 11 March 2022, Belarusian political police ] arrested and ] from Minsk, an editor of the Russian Misplaced Pages, who was contributing to the Misplaced Pages article about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. GUBOPiK accused him of the "spread of anti-Russian materials" and of violating Russian "fake news" laws.<ref name=zerkalo>{{cite web |author= |url=https://news.zerkalo.io/life/11113.html |title=В Беларуси задержали Марка Бернштейна — активиста и популяризатора интернет-энциклопедии Misplaced Pages.org |language=ru |website=] |date=11 March 2022 |access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author= |url=https://reform.by/302401-wiki-aktivist-mark-bernshtejn-zaderzhan-za-antirossijskie-materialy |title=Wiki-активист Марк Бернштейн задержан за "антироссийские материалы" |language=ru |website=reform.by |date=11 March 2022 |access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.yahoo.com/now/mark-bernstein-russian-wikipedia-pages-detained-in-belarus-104102452.html | title=Prominent editor of Russian Misplaced Pages pages detained in Belarus | date=12 March 2022 }}</ref> | |||
On 1 November 2022, a Russian court levied a fine 2 million rubles on the Wikimedia Foundation, for declining to delete two articles on Russian Misplaced Pages.<ref>{{cite news |date=1 November 2022 |title=Russia fines Wikimedia Foundation over Ukraine war entries |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-fines-wikimedia-foundation-over-ukraine-war-entries-2022-11-01/ |work=Reuters |access-date=1 November 2022}}</ref> On 28 February 2023, the Wikimedia Foundation was fined another 2 million rubles after accusations of refusal to delete what the court called "misinformation".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/russian-court-fines-wikipedia-over-military-misinformation-2023-02-28/ |title=Russian court fines Misplaced Pages over military 'misinformation' |website=Reuters |date=1 March 2023 |access-date=7 March 2023}}</ref> On 14 April 2023, a similar fine of 2 million rubles was imposed over an article on the ].<ref name="April 2023 fine">{{Cite web |last=Bajak |first=Frank |date=14 April 2023 |title=Russian court fines Misplaced Pages for article about Ukraine war |url=https://apnews.com/article/russia-wikipedia-censorship-fine-war-ukraine-51b4e08b96cceaedb455ea3f9564208c |access-date=14 April 2023 |website=Associated Press}}</ref> | |||
Calls to block access to Misplaced Pages have been made by various Russian political actors since the beginning of the invasion. In particular, ] and ], members of the ], called on 4 April 2023 to block the access because of "systemic bias".<ref>{{cite news |title="Это идеологический, политизированный продукт". Глава СПЧ призвал заблокировать "Википедию" в России |url=https://t.me/tvrain/64481 |work=] |date=4 April 2023 |language=ru}}</ref><!-- The ref is to Telegram, but the source is TV Rain, which is reliable. Eventually, it would need to be replaced by a better ref--> | |||
====2023 fork==== | |||
{{main|Ruwiki (Misplaced Pages fork)}} | |||
On 24 May 2023, long-time ] director Vladimir V. Medeyko announced "Рувики" ("Ruviki"), a fork of Russian Misplaced Pages.<ref>{{cite web|title=Запуск проекта Рувики|trans-title=Ruviki project launches |website=]|date= 24 May 2023|url=https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruwiki/articles/737260/}}</ref> | |||
== Impact of policies on content == | |||
In 2021, historian Maksym Potapenko and Doctor of Political Science Mateusz Kamionka conducted a study on editing the texts of articles about ] since its annexation by Russia. The researchers noted the difference in terminology between the Misplaced Pages articles in Russian, where in 2021 the military operation of the Russian Federation in Crimea in early 2014 was called "the annexation of Crimea to Russia", and in ], where the events were described as "annexation". In articles on the ] in Ukrainian, it is described as an ethno-historical region of Europe, Russian-language articles describe it as the imperial and Soviet heritage of Russia. | |||
According to the researchers, this is due to the difference in the political media narrative of both countries, as the Misplaced Pages editions preferred sources in their own language, as well as the difference in Ukrainian and Russian historiography, which has been growing since 2014. The researchers note that the content of the articles in the Ukrainian and Russian versions is significantly influenced by the current political situation and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. "The use of history as a means to substantiate and legitimize territorial claims" is increasing, and the use of history as a tool in Misplaced Pages undermines the principle of neutrality, one of Misplaced Pages's basic principles. As researchers noted in 2021. After 2014, articles on the history of Crimea in Ukrainian Misplaced Pages became more independent and original in terms of sources, while articles in Russian, due to a greater number of views, had a greater impact on the audience.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Potapenko |first1=Maxim |title=Wiki-History of Crimea: Ukrainian and Russian Versions |date=2023-01-30 |pages=91–104 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111000596-006/html?lang=en |access-date=2024-05-28 |publisher=De Gruyter Oldenbourg |language=en |doi=10.1515/9783111000596-006 |isbn=978-3-11-100059-6 |last2=Kamionka |first2=Mateusz}}</ref> | |||
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Latest revision as of 07:32, 20 December 2024
Russian-language edition of Misplaced Pages
Screenshot Main Page of the Russian Misplaced Pages in April 2013. | |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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Available in | Russian |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
URL | ru |
Commercial | Charitable |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 20 May 2001; 23 years ago (2001-05-20) |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Russian Misplaced Pages (Russian: Русская Википедия, romanized: Russkaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Misplaced Pages. As of January 2025, it has 2,018,607 articles. It was started on 11 May 2001. In October 2015, it became the sixth-largest Misplaced Pages by the number of articles. It has the sixth-largest number of edits (142 million). In June 2020, it was the world's sixth most visited language Misplaced Pages (after the English, the Japanese, the Spanish, the German and the French Wikipedias). As of November 2024, it is the third most viewed Misplaced Pages, after the English and Japanese editions.
It is the largest Misplaced Pages written in any Slavic language, surpassing its nearest rival, the Polish Misplaced Pages, by 20% in terms of the number of articles and fivefold by the parameter of depth. In addition, the Russian Misplaced Pages is the largest Misplaced Pages written in Cyrillic or in a script other than the Latin script. In April 2016, the project had 3,377 active editors who made at least five contributions in that month, ranking third behind the English and Spanish versions. As of 2024, it is the most popular Misplaced Pages in many post-Soviet states, including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, and the second most popular in others.
Since the early 2010s, the Russian Misplaced Pages and its contributing editors have experienced numerous and increasing threats of nationwide blocks and country-wide enforcement of blacklisting by the Russian government, as well as several attempts at Internet censorship, propaganda, and disinformation, more recently during the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian war in the Donbas region and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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 (currently 66) are elected through a vote; a minimum 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.
Content
As of 2024, some of the biggest categories (which contain more than 5,000 articles) in the Russian Misplaced Pages are:
- 176,411 biographical articles. Although the Western name order (given name(s) followed by family name) is generally used in Russian, the Russian Misplaced Pages uses lexical order (last name, comma, given name(s) and also the patronymic for most people from ex-Soviet countries) for all articles on non-fictional persons. This order has been traditionally used in major Russian-language encyclopedias, like the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
- 144,322 human settlements articles.
- 28,187 river articles
- 19,302 film articles
- 16,925 animal articles
- 16,517 scientific articles
- 16,133 surname articles
- 13,936 footballers' articles
- 11,247 Musicians' articles
- 10,755 Writers' articles
- 9,243 album articles
- 9,237 articles on recipients of the Order of Lenin
- 7,307 Company's articles
- 6,734 plant articles
- 6,574 street articles
- 6,265 NGC astronomical articles
- 6,157 actors articles
- 5,719 artist articles
- 5,580 music group articles
- 5,292 Hero of the Soviet Union articles
10,340 articles contain material from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. More than 47,000 articles were translated from the English Misplaced Pages.
Namespaces
In addition to common Misplaced Pages namespaces, the Russian Misplaced Pages has three custom ones: "Incubator" (# 102–103) – which is used as a training camp for new users and their first articles, "Project" (# 104–105) – for Misplaced Pages projects and "Arbitration" (# 106–107) – for arbitration requests.
User pages
On user pages, users are able to see their outreach, the cumulative view count of pages they have edited.
Reception
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (July 2019) |
In 2015, Roman Leibov [ru; et], a professor at the University of Tartu, in an interview opined that articles related to humanities in the Russian Misplaced Pages are of considerably inferior quality compared to English Misplaced Pages, and some articles even deteriorate with time. He suggested that this effect is due to overzealous policing of intellectual property rights by the community and bemoaned poor editing skills of some Wikipedians.
In 2022, the San Francisco Examiner praised the Russian Misplaced Pages for "filling the information vacuum" while "independent media abandon Russia or are censored" during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. For the safety of Wikipedians, all editors' names in the page about the Russian invasion in Ukraine are routinely erased.
Timeline
This section contains a list of miscellaneous information. Please relocate any relevant information into other sections or articles. (October 2023) |
- 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, the Russian Misplaced Pages received the National Runet Award in the 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, the Russian Misplaced Pages received the National Runet Award in the 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 16 June 2009, the 400,000th article was created.
- On 25 November 2009, the Russian Misplaced Pages received the National Runet Award in the Science and Education section.
- On 25 February 2010, the 500,000th article was created.
- On 8 October 2010, the 600,000th article was created.
- On 12 April 2011, the 700,000th article was created.
- On 10 December 2011, the 800,000th article was created.
- On 8 September 2012, the 900,000th article was created.
- On 11 May 2013, the 1,000,000th article was created.
- On 27 March 2014, the 1,100,000th article was created.
- On 19 March 2015, the 1,200,000th article was created.
- On 29 March 2016, the 1,300,000th article was created.
- On 14 June 2017, the 1,400,000th article was created.
- On 1 October 2018, the 1,500,000th article was created.
- On 26 February 2020, the 1,600,000th article was created.
- On 17 February 2021, the 1,700,000th article was created.
- On 4 March 2022, the 1,800,000th article was created.
- On 18 September 2024, the 2,000,000th article was created.
History
Early years
The Russian Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages 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.")
For a long time development was slow (especially after some participants left for WikiZnanie), but in the 12-month period between February 2005 and 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 Misplaced Pages won the "Science and education" category of the "Runet Prize" (Russian: Премия Рунета) award, supervised by the Russian government agency FAPMC.
Troubles with the Russian government
Main articles: Blocking of Misplaced Pages in Russia and Censorship in Russia Further information: Internet censorship in Russia, Mass surveillance in Russia, and Russian web brigadesOn 10 July 2012, Russian Misplaced Pages closed access to its content for 24 hours in protest against proposed amendments to Russia's Information Act (Bill No. 89417-6) regulating the accessibility of Internet-based information to children. Among other things, the bill stipulates the creation and country-wide enforcement of blacklists, which would block access to forbidden sites. Several aspects of this amendment drew criticism from various civil rights activists and Internet providers.
Supporters of the amendment stated that it is aimed only at widely prohibited content such as child pornography and similar information, but the Russian Wikimedia chapter has declared that conditions for determining the content falling under this law will create a thing like the "great Chinese firewall". They further claimed that existing Russian legal practice demonstrates a high likelihood of a worst-case scenario, resulting in a country-wide ban of Misplaced Pages. The second and the third readings of the law were held in the State Duma on 11 July; no essential corrections were introduced. The law will come into force after three readings in the State Duma, one reading in the Federation Council and presidential approval.
On 10 July, Nikolai Nikiforov, Russian Minister for Telecommunications and Mass Media announced in his Twitter account, that the organization of the List of the prohibited websites (that was sited on the Law Project No. 89417-6) will be suspended until 1 November 2012. On the same day Yelena Mizulina, a Duma deputy and the head of the subcommittee which sponsored the law, said that the blackout is an attempt to blackmail the Duma and was sponsored by the "pedophile lobby".
Also, since 2012, Russian foreign agent law resulted in reduced funding available for the Russian Misplaced Pages and its volunteers, who no longer can receive financial aid from abroad, including their share of funds raised through global Misplaced Pages fundraisers.
On 5 April 2013, it was confirmed by a spokesperson for the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media that Misplaced Pages had been blacklisted over the article "Курение каннабиса" ("Cannabis smoking") on Russian Misplaced Pages. On 31 March 2013, The New York Times reported that Russia was 'Selectively Blocking Internet', though Misplaced Pages itself was not blocked at that time.
Articles on Russian Misplaced Pages, and also on other Misplaced Pages versions, concerning the shoot down of flight MH17 and the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian war in the Donbas region have been targeted by Internet propaganda outlets associated with the Putin-led Russian government. Some of the edits were spotted by a Twitter bot which monitors Misplaced Pages edits made from Russian government IP addresses.
The entire Russian Misplaced Pages was blocked in the Russian Federation for a few hours in August 2015 due to the contents of the article on charas.
In November 2019, Russian president Vladimir Putin called for a government-run alternative to Misplaced Pages. The Guardian reported state funds had already been allocated according to official documents published the previous September. The new electronic alternative was intended to be based on the Great Russian Encyclopedia. According to the London Times, the proposal had been abandoned by mid-May 2020, however, according to Great Russian Encyclopedia employee Yekaterina Chukovskaya, only the working group was disbanded and work on the project as a whole will continue.
In December 2023, the Russian Wikimedia chapter voted unanimously to dissolve itself after its director had been warned by authorities that he would be designated a "foreign agent". He also stated that he was forced to resign from the university where he worked.
2022 fork
In June 2022, Runiversalis, a pro-government partial fork of the Russian Misplaced Pages, was launched. The site launched with only 9000 articles, a tiny subset of the 1.85 million articles on the Russian Misplaced Pages, with many articles being taken unmodified from the Russian Misplaced Pages.
Censorship and disinformation during the Russo-Ukrainian War
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In February and March 2022, in the first week following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and breakout of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russian Misplaced Pages editors warned their readers and fellow editors of several, reiterated attempts by the Putin-led Russian government of political censorship, Internet propaganda, disinformation attacks, and disruptive editing towards an article listing of Russian military casualties as well as Ukrainian civilians and children due to the ongoing war. The Misplaced Pages was generally considered under threat in Russia.
On 1 March 2022, Roskomnadzor, the Russian agency for monitoring and censoring mass media, wrote to the Wikimedia Foundation requesting for removal of the article "Вторжение России на Украину (с 2022)" ("2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine").
On 11 March 2022, Belarusian political police GUBOPiK arrested and detained Mark Bernstein from Minsk, an editor of the Russian Misplaced Pages, who was contributing to the Misplaced Pages article about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. GUBOPiK accused him of the "spread of anti-Russian materials" and of violating Russian "fake news" laws.
On 1 November 2022, a Russian court levied a fine 2 million rubles on the Wikimedia Foundation, for declining to delete two articles on Russian Misplaced Pages. On 28 February 2023, the Wikimedia Foundation was fined another 2 million rubles after accusations of refusal to delete what the court called "misinformation". On 14 April 2023, a similar fine of 2 million rubles was imposed over an article on the Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Calls to block access to Misplaced Pages have been made by various Russian political actors since the beginning of the invasion. In particular, Valery Fadeyev and Igor Ashmanov, members of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, called on 4 April 2023 to block the access because of "systemic bias".
2023 fork
Main article: Ruwiki (Misplaced Pages fork)On 24 May 2023, long-time Wikimedia RU director Vladimir V. Medeyko announced "Рувики" ("Ruviki"), a fork of Russian Misplaced Pages.
Impact of policies on content
In 2021, historian Maksym Potapenko and Doctor of Political Science Mateusz Kamionka conducted a study on editing the texts of articles about Crimea since its annexation by Russia. The researchers noted the difference in terminology between the Misplaced Pages articles in Russian, where in 2021 the military operation of the Russian Federation in Crimea in early 2014 was called "the annexation of Crimea to Russia", and in Ukrainian, where the events were described as "annexation". In articles on the history of Crimea in Ukrainian, it is described as an ethno-historical region of Europe, Russian-language articles describe it as the imperial and Soviet heritage of Russia.
According to the researchers, this is due to the difference in the political media narrative of both countries, as the Misplaced Pages editions preferred sources in their own language, as well as the difference in Ukrainian and Russian historiography, which has been growing since 2014. The researchers note that the content of the articles in the Ukrainian and Russian versions is significantly influenced by the current political situation and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. "The use of history as a means to substantiate and legitimize territorial claims" is increasing, and the use of history as a tool in Misplaced Pages undermines the principle of neutrality, one of Misplaced Pages's basic principles. As researchers noted in 2021. After 2014, articles on the history of Crimea in Ukrainian Misplaced Pages became more independent and original in terms of sources, while articles in Russian, due to a greater number of views, had a greater impact on the audience.
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- (in Russian) Russian Language Misplaced Pages
- (in Russian) Russian Misplaced Pages mobile version
- The embassy of the Russian-language Misplaced Pages
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