In Roskomnadzor, the Wikipedia administration was called not to jeopardize the entire resource and delete the article on drugs

Representatives of Roskomnadzor called on the administration of the Russian-speaking Wikipedia to comply with the requirement of a court decision and delete an article on drugs, due to which the online encyclopedia can be completely blocked .

“We inform that the administrators of the Russian -language version of Wikipedia, despite the notification sent to them, has not yet fulfilled the decision of the Chernoyarsky district court of the Astrakhan region in relation to one of the pages with information prohibited to spread in the Russian Federation,” the department said on the official page of the department on Facebook .

The report also notes that the reluctance of the administration of the Russian -speaking Wikipedia to execute a judicial verdict that recognized illegal information about the methods of preparing an drug -containing substance, puts the interests of numerous users of the site.

"Roskomnadzor, in order to execute a court decision, will be forced to send information about this page (through the mechanism of the Unified Register of Prohibited Information) for blocking operators," the press release says.

According to representatives of Roskomnadzor, the position of Vikipedia administrators is perplexed, because, having entered into conflict with Russian justice and protecting one page with information recognized by the court illegal, they threatened access to the entire resource.

“Of course, we, like all users of Wikipedia, would like to avoid blocking. It seems that the site administrators themselves are creating with perseverance, worthy of better use. At least judging by the statements of readiness for locks published in the media. Well, the choice for“ Wikipedia ”. The term determined by the legislation for the removal of illegal information by administrators, administrators It expires, ”they summed up in the department.

Recall that Roskomnadzor sent a request to the decision of the Chernoyarsky District Court of the Astrakhan Region to the Vikipedia administration, it became known the day before. Later, representatives of the online encyclopedia reported that the controversial article called Charas was edited in accordance with internal rules, but the authors' community decided not to remove it. Apparently, such a compromise did not suit representatives of Roskomnadzor.

If the article is nevertheless entered in the register of prohibited sites, this will lead to a complete blocking of the online encyclopedia by Russian providers, since the resource operates on the basis of the HTTPS protocol, which does not allow access restrictions to individual pages.

Judging by the record published on the blog of the executive director of the Vikimedia RU NP Stanislav Kozlovsky on August 21, the Vikipedia administration is not going to comply with the requirement of Roskomnadzor, is ready to block the site and expects that the media will tell users about the legal ways to overcome it.

The whole of Russia uses Wikipedia, and I would like to believe that in which case they will intercede for us. But we saw what happened to Lurkmorye and Flibustu. No one began to intercede. However, if we are closed in Russia, the site itself will not disappear anywhere, they will simply block access to it. In this regard, we hope for the media: what they will explain to readers, that bypassing locks is legal and not so difficult. You just need to download the Opera browser and put the turbo mode or install a special plugin for Chrome. There are a lot of ways, ”wrote Kozlovsky.

The attendance of a prohibited article on drugs increased 60 times

It should be noted that the situation, flared up around the prohibited article "Wikipedia", expectedly led to an increase in its attendance. According to the Roskomsvoboda portal, the article "Charas" survived a huge surge in attendance and almost from the zero level of users' daily activity on this page (200-400 views per day) reached the figure of 29,976 views per day, while the total number of views of the article in August was 31,187. Thus, the article became more popular more than 60 times and occupied more than 60 times and occupied 3rd place in the list of the most visited Wikipedia pages.

Such a rapid increase in user interest can be considered a visual demonstration of the so -called effect of the stretzand - a phenomenon expressed in the fact that an attempt to delete certain information leads only to its wider distribution.