WikiZnanie
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WikiZnanie (Russian: ) is a Russian language WikiWiki encyclopedia released under the BSL DPL license and created in 2003. It uses the MediaWiki software. The name derives from wiki and znanie, Russian for knowledge.
As of May, 2006, WikiZnanie currently has over 102,000 articles (compared with only about 75,500 on the Russian wikipedia as of May 2006). Its bulk constitutes text dumps of old encyclopedias that have long been available on the internet: Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Soviet Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and other free texts.
WikiZnanie differs from the Wikipedia (and Russian Wikipedia) project by licensing under the BSL DPL (instead of GFDL), the possibility (and even encouragement) of having articles representing several different points of view and displayment of commercial ads on article pages. It has servers in Moscow for faster access to pages from Russian territory and uses ads to secure financial support.
The author and webmaster of the project is Andrey Vovk.
See also
External links
- () [Wikiznanie home page]
- () [Викизнание:О проекте] Wikiznanie about itself
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