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Russian Wikipedia: now has over 2,000,000 articles

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Thursday, September 19, 2024

The new Russian Wikipedia logo.
Image: Insider (derivative of works of Wikimedia Foundation, Nohat (Russian Wikipedia one million logo in 2013), Larske (Swedish Wikipedia two million articles logo in 2015)).

On Wednesday, the Russian Wikipedia for the first time in history recorded two million articles. A contributor Pessimist2006 wrote about this in a new thread on the Russian Wikipedia users' forum, which is part of the wiki alongside the main, encyclopedic content. Contributor and administrator Insider created a new version of the website logo to celebrate the achievement. The logo is the Wikipedia unfinished puzzle globe in golden color and with a banner containing the number "2 000 000" in front of it. As of September 24, the Russian Wikipedia's home page reports 2000853 articles.

Contributor and administrator Lesless reported that the two-millionth article was about Nabokov's story "Музыка" (Russian). The article was written by the Omsk Wikipedian and journalist Nikolai Eichwald (Russian). As of September 24, he had created 6,025 articles on Russian Wikipedia, representing 0.301% of the total articles, based on a software calculation on the wiki. His most-recently created page is "Месть (рассказ Набокова)," in English: "Revenge (story by Nabokov)."

The previous milestone of one million articles was passed eleven years ago, on May 11, 2013.

Russian Wikipedia has been in seventh place by the number of articles for several years now: List of Wikipedias.

It should be noted that some articles in this list are so-called "botopedias" (Википедия:Ботопедия), that is, the articles either consist entirely of automatic fills (Cebuano, Warai), or contain a large percentage of such fills (Dutch, Swedish). The automatic fills include initially short articles about notable subjects, for example, species and geographical locations, mainly containing metadata without a long, in-depth article. These automatic fills are allowed and are possible because the information from the external source is freely licensed, for example in the public domain, and can be retrieved automatically to add content to a Wikipedia page.

In fact, the Russian Wikipedia is in fourth place after the English, German and French Wikipedias.


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