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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
- Award
- Runet Prize
- Owned by
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Operator
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Official website
- ru.m.wikipedia.org
- Image
- Russian Wikipedia Main Page 15.07.2018.png
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- product or material produced
- online encyclopedia
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia-ru
- Commons gallery
- Russian Wikipedia
- Wikimedia language code
- ru
- Commons category
- Russian Wikipedia
- language of work or name
- Russian
- DuckDuckGo bang
- шру
- inception
- 2001-05-17
- writing system
- Cyrillic script
- review score
- 3/5
- number of records
- 2089496
- API endpoint URL
- ru.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
- 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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