Internet Encyclopedia of Ruwiki

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2024

The project of the "Big Russian Encyclopedia" is liquidated, and its materials are transmitted by "Ruviki"

On October 7, 2024, it became known about the decision of the Russian government to liquidate the ANO "Big Russian Encyclopedia" (BRE) and transfer the accumulated materials of the Internet encyclopedia "Ruviki." This solution is aimed at strengthening the competitive advantages of the domestic encyclopedic resource and preserving valuable scientific developments. Read more here

Full Year Launch Plan

The Ruviki Encyclopedia, which is being created as the Russian analogue of Wikipedia, will be released from beta testing on January 15, 2024. In the full version with technological updates, the platform will work during 2024. This was announced on January 10, 2024 by the press service of the State Duma deputy RFAnton Nemkin with reference to TASS.

As previously reported by News the publication "" with reference to the press service of the encyclopedia, in 2024, personalization, content thematic collections, audio translation of the full and short version of the article, an updated user's personal account, videos and podcasts will appear in Ruviki.

In the beta version, the concepts of "verified" and "peer-reviewed" articles were introduced: the Ruvika editorial office is working on the former, and the latter were prepared with the help of experts. The total volume of materials in Russian in the encyclopedia for January 2024 is already 1,940,683 articles.

According to the company, the average time on the site is more than six minutes, the average viewing depth is over five pages.

2023

Getting Started

The Russian analogue of Wikipedia - "RUVIKI^[1]" - was launched at the end of June 2023. By this time, about 1.9 million Russian-language articles are posted on the portal. The page also features several articles, interesting facts and a selection of historical events that took place on June 26, 2023. Users are invited to become authors of the portal.

The beta version works, we change the content, we serve technical issues. In fact, it did not start today, today it was just noticed. It has been working all weekend, this is a test mode that we have turned on for testers so far, "Vladimir Medeyko, General Director of the Internet Encyclopedia of Ruviki, told TASS on June 26, 2023.

"Ruviki" launched in beta mode

According to him, the full-scale launch of the portal is planned until the end of June 2023.

Deputy State Dumas Andrei Gorelkin spoke about the development of the Russian analogue of Wikipedia in May 2023. According to him, it will be called "Rusviki" (perhaps the deputy meant "Ruviki"). According to Kommersant"," the former director of Wikimedia RU Vladimir Medeyko is developing the portal - he left his position after colleagues learned about his secret work on his own project. Medeiko said that he conducted the work "non-publicly" and called the project "Free Encyclopedia" (this is how Wikipedia positions itself). The Ruwiki website says it is an open encyclopedia.

The authorities have repeatedly stated that they are going to develop an analogue of the Internet encyclopedia. Moreover, such ideas appeared long before the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine. For example, in 2019, President Vladimir Putin said that Wikipedia should be replaced by the Big Russian Encyclopedia because of doubts about the reliability of the information presented on the resource. Such a portal already exists by the end of June 2023.^[2]

Appointment of Vladimir Medeyko as General Director

At the end of May 2023, it became known about the departure of Vladimir Medeiko from the post of director of the non-profit partnership Wikimedia RU, which is developing the Russian-language Wikipedia. He headed the ANO "Internet Encyclopedia Ruwiki," which deals with its own project of the Internet encyclopedia. Read more here.

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