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Russian Misplaced Pages

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Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Russian
Headquarters	Miami, Florida
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	http://ru.wikipedia.org/
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional

The Russian Misplaced Pages (Template:Lang-ru) is the Russian language edition of Misplaced Pages. It was founded on 20 May 2001. Its 10,000th article was created on 30 December 2004, and it is currently one of the largest and fastest growing Wikipedias. On May 19, 2008, it became the 10th largest Misplaced Pages by size and on 25 February 2010, it passed the 500,000 articles threshold. As of August 2009, yearly traffic was growing at a rate of 117%, nearly twice that of the second fastest growing, Korean Misplaced Pages.

On 29 November 2006, it was awarded the Russian state "Runet Prize" (Премия Рунета) in the science and education category.

Policies

Rules in Russian Misplaced Pages are not regarded as flexible in disputes as they are on the English project. Difficult issues are resolved through an arbitration committee which handles content disputes, blocks users or prohibit certain users from editing articles on certain topics. Misuse of administrator privileges is typically appealed through the arbitration committee because only this authority has the power to remove administrator flags.

The Russian Misplaced Pages accepts fair use content and is generally quite liberal on what content is allowed. One thing which serves as an exception is categorization or listing of people based on their ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. Such categories are generally prohibited unless the category is relevant to the main activity of a person. For example, the category "Jewish mathematicians" is not permitted as there is no such thing as "Jewish mathematics", but "Jewish musicians" is permitted for only those who have contributed to Jewish music (disregarding the ethnicity of the musician). Generic ethnic categories such as "Russians" or "Ukrainians" are not used.

The Russian Misplaced Pages has used automated scripts to create articles.

Administrators are elected through a vote; a minimal quorum of 30 voters and 66% of support votes are required if the request is to be considered successful. Administrators who have been inactive (have used any administrative tools such as the "delete" or "block" buttons less than 25 times) for six months lose their privileges by an Arbitration Committee determination.

The arbitration committee has on several occasions blocked users for behavior outside Misplaced Pages, for example, for critical blog comments about other Misplaced Pages users. In addition, an administator of the Russian Misplaced Pages was desysoped for being a domestic partner of vandal and for splashing one of the administrators with a glass of water at one of the Wikimeetings. Such blocks have proven to be quite controversial, and as a result, a major discussion to establish whether a user can be blocked for external behavior took place in February 2010.

History

The Russian Misplaced Pages was created on 20 May 2001 in the first wave of non-English Wikipedias, along with editions in Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, German, Esperanto, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

The first edit of the Russian Misplaced Pages was on 24 May 2001, and consisted of the line "Russia is a great nation". The following edit changed it to the joke: "Russia is the land where elephants (the big-eared, all-terrain capable type, see Mammoth) originated."

For a long time development was slow (especially since some left for WikiZnanie), but in a year from February 2005 to February 2006 it surpassed nine editions in other languages, i.e. Catalan, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Finnish, Norwegian, Chinese, Esperanto and Danish Wikipedias.

In 2006 and 2007, the Russian Misplaced Pages won the "Science and education" category of the "Runet Prize" (Russian: Премия Рунета) award, supervised by the Russian government agency FAPMC.

Controversy

The Russian edition of PC Magazine has been in conflict with Russian Misplaced Pages since the middle 2009. Russian Misplaced Pages administrators have accused PC Mag/RE of plagiarism while several articles about bureaucratization, sysop tyranny and low quality of articles in RuWiki were published in the magazine. The conflict ended up in PC Magazine block of linking to its articles from Russian Misplaced Pages pages.

Content

Some of the biggest categories included:

• 45,665 biographical articles
• 24,276 human settlements articles
• 11,144 film articles
• 7,895 NGC astronomical articles
• 2,961 surname articles
• 2,750 animal articles
• 2,012 events by year articles

10,161 articles contain material from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.

Source: Most linked categories

Timeline

• On 7 November 2002, the main page was created
• On 30 December 2004, the 10,000th article was created.
• On 23 December 2005, the 50,000th article was created.
• On 16 August 2006, the 100,000th article was created.
• On 29 November 2006, Russian Misplaced Pages received National Runet Award on Educational section.
• On 10 March 2007, the 150,000th article was created.
• On 4 September 2007, the 200,000th article was created.
• On 27 November 2007, Russian Misplaced Pages received National Runet Award on Educational section.
• On 17 March 2008, the 250,000th article was created.
• On 18 July 2008, the 300,000th article was created.
• On 22 January 2009, the 350,000th article was created.
• On 18 April 2009, the 380,000th article was created.
• On 16 June 2009, the 400,000th article was created.
• On 25 February 2010, the 500,000th article was created.

References

1. Wikimedia Report Card August 2009 Retrieved on 2009-10-12
2. Russian Misplaced Pages's press release on Runet Prize (November 2006)
3. See Russian Misplaced Pages guidelines Википедия:Категоризация (Misplaced Pages:Categorization) and Википедия:Критерии категоризации персоналий по государственной принадлежности (Misplaced Pages:Criteria for categorization of people by citizenship)
4. Википедия:Заявки на арбитраж/Вневикипедийные события
5. Википедия:Опросы/Блокировки за действия на внешних ресурсах
6. Википедия:История нашего раздела (Misplaced Pages:The history of our language edition)
7. Template:Ru iconMajor award of Russian Internet became a state one – Lenta.Ru, 29 August 2005
8. http://pcmag.ru/club/user/3902/blog/255/
9. http://www.pcmag.ru/club/user/119/blog/271/
10. http://pcmag.ru/club/user/1/blog/502/
11. First currently-kept Main Page of November 7, 2002

External links

• Russian Language Misplaced Pages
• The embassy of the Russian-language Misplaced Pages

• Wikipedias by language
• Russian encyclopedias
• Internet in Russia