Wikipedia/Russian edition
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| The Russian-language version of Wikipedia - but not written by anyone in Russia! |
The Russian Wikipedia is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. As of September2023, it has 1,939,066 articles. It was started on 11 May 2001.
In September 2023, it had 2000 editors with 5-99 edits a month, and 380 editors with more than 100 edits a month.[1]
No editors from Russia
For the editors with 5-99 edits a month, this included 460 authors from Ukraine, 150 authors from Germany, 80 authors from the USA, 40 authors from Kyrgyzstan, 50 authors from Poland and a total of 70 authors from each of the three Baltic states. From Russia, there were 0 editors.
For editors with over 100 edits a month on the Russian-language Wikipedia, 60 are from Ukraine, 20 Germany, 10 each from Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the US. 0 of the top editors were based in Russia.
Ukrainian government agreement with Wikimedia
In April 2020, The Ukrainian government announced the launch of a campaign to "correct" articles which the authorities consider biased against the country in Wikipedia. The Ministry's partner in this endeavor was the public organization Wikimedia Ukraine, which is the largest association of Wikipedia administrators in the country.[2]
The aim of the campaign was to "counteract disinformation" about Ukraine and disseminate "proper" information about the country in different languages. At the same time, the representative of the government said that the participants of the campaign would make entries in Wikipedia dedicated to the Russian aggression against Ukraine and relevant events. [2]
Ukrainian diplomats would correct Wikipedia in the languages of their host countries, the Foreign Ministry said.[2]
