{"id":48089,"date":"2024-01-15T08:07:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T08:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/russian-version-of-wikipedia-to-launch-monday-reports-say-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-01-15T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T08:07:07","slug":"russian-version-of-wikipedia-to-launch-monday-reports-say-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/russian-version-of-wikipedia-to-launch-monday-reports-say-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian version of Wikipedia to launch Monday, reports say  | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A full-scale launch of Ruwiki, a Russian version of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopaedia, will take place on Monday, according to Russian media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Beta testing &#8211; a limited audience testing of the site &#8211; started in mid-2023, the daily Kommersant reported, and there were reportedly already more articles in Ruwiki than in the Russian-language segment of Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has said it was not yet planning to block Wikipedia &#8211; one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russia since a state crackdown on online content intensified after Moscow&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Russian courts, however, have\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russia-fines-wikipedia-owner-failing-delete-azov-battalion-content-ifax-2023-06-06\/\">handed the online encyclopaedia<\/a>\u00a0a series of fines over Ukraine-related content since.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his approval to new alternative platforms to Wikipedia in May of 2022, according to Russian media.<\/p>\n<p>The Izvestia newspaper reported last week, citing Ruwiki&#8217;s press service, that the most-read articles during the beta testing phase included a list of deaths in 2023, the escalation of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Russia&#8217;s military operation in Ukraine and the highest-grossing films in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The average user would spend more than six minutes on the site, and the average viewing depth was over five pages in the trial phase, Izvestia reported.<\/p>\n<p>Kommersant said that the founders of Ruwiki would not disclose how much the project had cost or the names of the site&#8217;s investors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v5.0&#038;appId=419051588770002&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full-scale launch of Ruwiki, a Russian version of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopaedia, will take place on Monday, according to Russian media reports. 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