Russian Wikipedia

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The Russian Wikipedia (Russian: Википедия) 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 Russian state "Runet Prize" (Премия Рунета) in the category "science and education". [1]

[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 received National Runet Award on Educational section.
On March 10, 2007, the 150,000th article was created.