WikiZnanie
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 Screenshot of WikiZnanie on January 10, 2007 |
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| URL | http://www.wikiznanie.ru/ |
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| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Encyclopedia |
| Registration | Optional |
| Owner | Andrey Vovk |
| Created by | Andrey Vovk |
WikiZnanie (Russian: ВикиЗнание) is a Russian language WikiWiki encyclopedia released under the FreeBSD Documentation License license and created in 2003. It uses the MediaWiki software. The name derives from wiki and znanie, which is Russian for knowledge.
In 2006, WikiZnanie added over 1000 articles. As of March, 2007, WikiZnanie has over 104,000 articles (compared with over 150,000 on the Russian Wikipedia). Much of its content comes from encyclopedias, some of which are freely available on the Internet: Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Soviet Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and other free texts.
WikiZnanie differs from the Wikipedia (and Russian Wikipedia) project by licensing under the BSL DPL (instead of GFDL), the possibility (and even encouragement) of having articles representing several different points of view and displaying of commercial ads on article pages. It also allows original research. It has servers in Moscow for faster access to pages from Russian territory and uses ads to secure financial support.
The author and webmaster of the project is Andrey Vovk (wznan:user:Vovkav).
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- (Russian) Wikiznanie home page
- (Russian) Викизнание:О проекте Wikiznanie about itself
- (Russian) WikiZnanie's comparison of itself with Wikipedia
- (Russian) Wikiznanie in ru.wikipedia history
- (Russian) Article about giant squids refers to Wikiznanie as a source
- (Russian) Note about Wiki-technology and Wikiznanie (and other Wiki-sites) at ukrainian news resource
| History of Wikipedia | |
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| Main articles | Bomis · Nupedia · Wikipedia · Wikimedia Foundation · Wikimania · MediaWiki |
| People | Jimmy Wales · Larry Sanger · Tim Shell · Wikipedia community |
| Events and individuals | Alan Mcilwraith · Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China · Congressional staffer edits to Wikipedia · Essjay controversy · Fuzzy Zoeller · Henryk Batuta · Joshua Gardner · Seigenthaler controversy · QuakeAID |
| Related projects and forks | Citizendium · Enciclopedia Libre · Interpedia · WikiZnanie · Wikinfo · Wikitruth · Wikiweise |
