Russian Wikipedia

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Russian Wikipedia

Screenshot Main Page of the Russian Wikipedia in April 2013
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Russian
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	ru.wikipedia.org
Commercial	Charitable
Registration	Optional
Launched	20 May 2001; 22 years ago (2001-05-20)
Content license	Creative Commons ShareAlike License 3.0

The Russian Wikipedia (Russian: Русская Википедия, romanized: Russkaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. As of April 2024, it has 1,975,958 articles. It was started on 11 May 2001.^[1] In October 2015, it became the sixth-largest Wikipedia by the number of articles. It has the sixth-largest number of edits (137 million). In June 2020, it was the world's sixth most visited language Wikipedia (after the English, the Japanese, the Spanish, the German and the French Wikipedias).^[2]

It is the largest Wikipedia written in any Slavic language, surpassing its nearest rival, the Polish Wikipedia, by 20% in terms of the number of articles and fivefold by the parameter of depth.^[3] In addition, the Russian Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia written in Cyrillic^[4] 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 2023, it is the most popular Wikipedia in many post-Soviet states, including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, and the second most popular in others.^{[citation needed]}

Since the early 2010s, the Russian Wikipedia 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,^{[5][6][7][8][9]} more recently during the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian war in the Donbas region^{[10][11][12][13]} and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[14]