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[ru] Russian-language edition of Wikipedia

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Russian Wikipedia is the version of Wikipedia written in the Russian language, allowing Russian speakers to access and contribute to free, crowdsourced encyclopedia content in their native language. It matters because it provides an important source of information to hundreds of millions of Russian speakers worldwide and reflects how knowledge is documented and discussed within Russian-speaking communities.

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Official name
Русская Википедия
Official website
ru.m.wikipedia.org
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product or material produced
online encyclopedia
IRC channel URL
irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia-ru
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Russian Wikipedia
Wikimedia language code
ru
Commons category
Russian Wikipedia
language of work or name
Russian
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шру
inception
2001-05-17
writing system
Cyrillic script
review score
3/5
number of records
2089496
social media followers
20190
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Encyclopedic overview

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The Russian Wikipedia (Russian: Русская Википедия, romanized: Russkaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. As of June 2026, it has 2,103,412 articles. It was started on 11 May 2001. In October 2015, it became the sixth-largest Wikipedia by the number of articles. It has the sixth-largest number of edits (153 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). As of November 2024, it is the third most viewed Wikipedia, after the English and Japanese editions.

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