Russian Wikipedia
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Russian Wikipedia is the Russian language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. On August 16, 2006, it reached the 100,000 article mark. On November 29, 2006, it was awarded the prestigious state "Runet Prize" (Премия Рунета) in the category "science and education". [1]
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[edit] History
The Russian Wikipedia was created May 20, 2001 in the first wave of non-English Wikipedias, along with editions in Chinese, Dutch, German, Esperanto, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. For a long time, development was slow.
- On November 7, 2002, the first main page was created [2]
- 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 Wikipedia get National Runet Award on Educational section.
[edit] Common error
The Russian Wikipedia is often misinterpreted under some minor Wikipedias (usually ranging from 20,000 to 1,000+ articles) as an edition with only 1,000 articles.
[edit] See also
- WikiZnanie - a rival free encyclopedia based on several public domain works
[edit] External links
| Editions of Wikipedia with over 100,000 articles |
| English en: - German de: - French fr: - Polish pl: - Japanese ja: - Dutch nl: - Italian it: - Portuguese pt: - Swedish sv: - Spanish es: - Russian ru: - Chinese zh: |
