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In Russia, on August 23, the local analogue of Wikipedia, Runiversalis, began its work. State Duma deputy Anton Gorelkin announced the launch. According to him, the project is developed by former editors of the Russian Wikipedia, based on his own content.
At the same time, the content is different – in particular, on the portal there are articles such as “Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine”, “Provocation in Bucha”, “War Crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during Special Military Operations”.
In the original Russian Wikipedia, events in Ukraine are described in a different interpretation and in different words – in this regard, for several months, Roskomnadzor has been demanding that the fund remove articles that “contain false information about their purpose and form.” special military operation.”
“Encyclopedia [Руниверсалис — прим. «Газеты.Ru»] It resides on Russian servers and declares that it respects the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation and our traditional values. “This means that any attempt to give the articles a left-liberal and Western-centric bias will be suppressed.”
He noted that the encyclopedia is powered by a wiki engine, but is independent of policies enforced by the Wikimedia Foundation.
“Authors pass on the content of the Russian Wikipedia to themselves, clearing the articles of propaganda and malicious content”,
– Gorelkin noted and noted that a stand-alone version “which does not require additions from third-party projects” may also appear in the future.
manifest
The Telegram channel “Runiversalis” published the service statement and a statement:
“Runiversalis” applies the laws of Russia, and not the United States (and this means that there will be no false nonsense about what is happening in Ukraine, in particular, in the articles “Runiversalis”, the priority of traditional values \u200b\u200bthat is declared in the project.”
The authors also give an example: “To define homosexuality, editors will not proceed from what is written in Western scientific journals that have succumbed to pressure from the LGBT lobby (which, as Wikipedia does, imposes homosexuality propaganda as the “norm”). , but from traditional ideas about the relationship between the masculine and feminine.”
The channel was established on August 16. It has a little over a thousand subscribers (at the time of writing). However, the channel does not have a checkmark – it has not been verified by the Telegram administration.
Drop
A few hours after Gorelkin’s publication and various references in the media, the encyclopedia website stopped opening. And it showed 403 error – “Access to the page is denied.”
“Currently, the site is temporarily unavailable due to increased reader interest in Runiversalis and, as our server writes, “the abnormal load typical for a DDoS attack,” says the last post of the Runiversalis channel. . . .
And it is reportedly seeking a solution to “return the site to the system quickly”.
Reaction
Stanislav Kozlovsky, general manager of Wikimedia.Ru, in a conversation with socialbites.ca noted that there are “a dozen or so competitors and analogues” – “no one has succeeded so far.”
“There was a kind of encyclopedia that took articles from Wikipedia and everywhere changed the word “wiki” robotically to “encyclopedia”. And there were “encyclones” instead of Vikings. Bolsheviks are Bolsheviks,” Kozlovsky said.
He emphasized that the basic principle of Wikipedia is a free license so anyone can get “available and free” articles from the source.
“There is no malicious content on Wikipedia, no propaganda. One of Wikipedia’s core tenets is a neutral point of view, meaning everything is expressed from an unbiased point of view. “A lot of people with different opinions follow each other so that there is no propaganda on Wikipedia,” he said.
He also commented on problems with the competitor’s site, suggesting that its creators “misconfigured” something.
“It takes about an hour to make a copy of Wikipedia.
The Mediawiki engine is freely published and Wikipedia transcripts are also published daily. The opportunity to make your own Wikipedia analogue is given to absolutely everyone. Even a schoolboy can do it.
As for the site of the next “clone” of Wikipedia, they probably read the help carelessly and misconfigured something. I think they’ll fix it soon,” Kozlovsky concluded.
Source: Gazeta
