Ruwiki
Sign in to saveAlso known as ruviki, ruwiki.ru, ru.ruwiki.ru, alt.ruwiki.ru, ba.ruwiki.ru, ce.ruwiki.ru, cv.ruwiki.ru
multilingual online wiki-encyclopedia from Russia
Key facts
- Native name
- Рувики
- Type of site
- Online encyclopedia
- Available in
- Multilingual
- Predecessor
- Russian Wikipedia
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Owner
- ANO "Ruwiki Internet Encyclopedia"
- Founder
- Vladimir Medeyko
- Url
- ruwiki .ru
- Commercial
- No
- Registration
- Required to edit, form required to edit specific areas
- Launched
- 24 June 2023 (beta), 15 January 2024 (full launch)
- Content license
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (until 22 March 2026)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- organization
- Official name
- Рувики
- Country
- Russia
- Owned by
- Yury Kovalchuk
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Based on
- Russian Wikipedia
- Game engine
- MediaWiki
- Official website
- myv.ruwiki.ru
- Image
- Ruwiki.png
Show 11 more facts
- language of work or name
- Erzya
- has goal
- linguistic diversity
- inception
- 2023-07-00
- Commons category
- Ruwiki (website)
- title
- Рувики
- facet of
- censorship
- copyright license
- all rights reserved
- announcement date
- 2023-05-24
- start time
- 2023-06-27
- catchphrase
- Знаешь, где узнать
- point in time
- 2020-02-22
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ruwiki (Russian: Рувики, romanized: Ruviki) is a Russian multilingual online encyclopedia, with editions in Russian and other languages of the Russian Federation. It was launched on 24 June 2023 as a fork of the Russian-language Wikipedia, and has been described by media as "Putin-friendly" and "Kremlin-compliant", as well as a "[Russian] state-sponsored encyclopedia that is a clone of the original Russian Wikipedia but which conveniently has been edited to omit things that could cast the Russian government in poor light." A full-scale launch took place on 15 January 2024.
The project is led by Vladimir Medeyko, who was formerly involved with the Russian Wikipedia project and was a director of Wikimedia RU. Medeyko reportedly created the project as an alternative to the Russian Wikipedia, which would be more friendly to the Russian government.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ruwiki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.