The Russian Wikipedia is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. As of May 2024, it has 1,978,779 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 (137 million). In June 2020, it was the world's sixth most visited language Wikipedia.
Awards of Russian Wikipedia. "Golden site" prize (2007) and four Runet Prizes (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010)
Russian Wikipedia Main Page during 10 July 2012 blackout. "Imagine a world without free knowledge" written.
Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. It is consistently ranked as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush, and second by Ahrefs. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people.
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American journalist John Seigenthaler (1927–2014), subject of the Seigenthaler incident
Katherine Maher, the third executive director of Wikimedia, served from 2016 to 2021.
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