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    free online encyclopedia Wikipedia was briefly blocked in Russia in August 2015. Some articles from Wikipedia were included in various censorship lists...
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    Wikipedia has been censored by governments in a few countries including (but not limited to) China, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria...
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    The Russian Wikipedia (Russian: Русская Википедия, romanized: Russkaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. As of June 2025, it has...
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    United Kingdom, Germany and Russia each account for around 5%. Wikipedia has been praised for enabling the democratization of knowledge, its extensive coverage...
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    of the invasion amid fears of a Russian block, and over 105,000 downloads had been made during the first half of March. In Belarus, Russian Wikipedia...
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  • see the block of Wikipedia in Turkey). The Federal List of Extremist Materials is compiled by the Russian Ministry of Justice on the basis of court decisions...
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    This is a list of notable websites that have been blocked or censored by Russian Federation, including current and past blocks. The Federal Service for...
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    the Russian government began blocking access to Telegram, an instant messaging service. The blocking led to interruptions in the operation of many third-party...
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    languages of the Russian Federation. It was launched in June 24, 2023 as a fork of the Russian-language Wikipedia, and has been described by media as "Putin-friendly"...
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  • On July 10, 2012, the Russian Wikipedia blacked out in protest against the amendments to the law "On Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their...
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  • The blocking of Meta Platforms in Russia is the process of blocking access and subsequent banning of Meta Platforms' social networks in Russia due to allowing...
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    discuss] of Wikipedia was blocked in Russia on the night of August 25.[citation needed] On 1 March 2022, Roskomnadzor threatened to block access to Russian Wikipedia...
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    dominant Russian language edition. In the Ukrainian Wikipedia, one area of knowledge has been covered to an extent greater than all other Wikipedias—the subject...
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    displayed on the web pages of the English-language edition of the project, there is the wordmark "WIKIPEDIA" (styled as WikipediA (in small caps, with the leading...
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    headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is the host of Wikipedia, the eighth most visited website in the...
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    Since the launch of Wikipedia in 2001, it has faced several controversies. Wikipedia's open-editing model, which allows any user to edit its encyclopedic...
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    The reliability of Wikipedia and its volunteer-driven and community-regulated editing model, particularly its English-language edition, has been questioned...
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    of English Wikipedia articles Raw data Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known...
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    The German Wikipedia (German: Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia...
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  • him, it was blocked from Wikipedia indefinitely. Wikipedia is not always referenced in the same way. The ways described below are some of the ways it...
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    encyclopedia Wikipedia has been criticized since its creation in 2001. Most of the criticism has been directed toward its content, community of established...
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  • Zhemao hoaxes were over 200 interconnected Wikipedia articles about falsified aspects of medieval Russian history written from 2012 to 2022 by Zhemao...
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    Gender bias on Wikipedia is the phenomenon that men are more likely than women to be volunteer contributors and article subjects of Wikipedia (although the...
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    41st-largest Wikipedia. In late 2011, the Uzbek Wikipedia was blocked in Uzbekistan and the reasons behind the blockage were not disclosed. The block was not...
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  • anti-opposition bias was blocked on the Russian-language Wikipedia. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Kremlin trolls were still active on...
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    contributor to the Russian Wikipedia based in Minsk, was detained by GUBOPiK personnel after online accusations of violating the Russian 2022 war censorship...
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    The Italian Wikipedia (Italian: Wikipedia in italiano) is the Italian-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was created on 10 May 2001, and first...
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  • SouthFront (category Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List)
    referenced in 136 articles of the Russian Wikipedia, 70 of the Arabic edition, 52 of the Spanish, 45 of the Portuguese, and 32 of the Vietnamese Wikipedia. The...
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  • This is a list of websites blocked in the United Kingdom. As part of UK sanctions against Russia, ISPs are required to take "reasonable steps to prevent"...
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    signed into law. In June 2020, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Russia in a case involving the blocking of websites critical of the government...
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