The number of articles in the Russian -speaking "Wikipedia" exceeded 1.5 million

On October 1, the number of articles created in the Russian-speaking section of the Wikipedia Internet Encyclopedia exceeded 1.5 million. The executive director of the Vikimedia RU NP (is engaged in the development of Wiki projects in Russia) Stanislav Kozlovsky reported this significant for Runet.

According to Roskomsvoboda , several articles claim the title of anniversary: ​​"Old Burma" , "The village of Raibolnitsa (Bakalinsky District)" , "Corono (Cordon)" , as well as the article "Ratseni" . It is quite difficult to determine which of these articles has become one and a half million, since the articles on Wikipedias both appear and are removed at a fairly high speed.

In the Russian Wikipedia today, the 1.500,000th article is written. The current writing pace is about 100 thousand articles per year.

- Stas Kozlovsky (@stas_kozlovskiy) October 1, 2018

In a small commentary for Roskomvoboda, Kozlovsky specified that in terms of the absolute number of articles, the Russian-speaking “Wikipedia” takes 7th place in the world, and in terms of the appearance of new articles is in fifth place, second only to projects in English, German, French and Spanish.

Kozlovsky also noted that Russian officials still rule the articles in the encyclopedia, but there are not too many such amendments. You can monitor them through a specially created Twitter account "GOSALS" .

The Russian-speaking section of the World Internet Encyclopedia appeared on May 11, 2001. The Russian -speaking "Wikipedia" overcame the line of one million articles on May 11, 2013. This section takes 2nd place in terms of the number of uploaded files, the 4th in terms of the number of most active editors and the 5th by the number of views and amendments.