Wikislavia

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Wikislavia is an free online encyclopedia. It was founded by a group of wiki-dissenters who where exiled from the Russian Wikipedia because of cultural and POV-persecutions. These include banning and harassing people who think differently and deleting information that would be damaging to the interests of Moscovite anti-nationalists. Wikislavia has a inclusionist policy and it includes not only articles, but also wiki-sources and educational materials. The number of pages amount to more than 30,000 and the website is growing quickly with more than 2000 pages a day. Wikislavia contains pages in many languages, not only in Russian but also in many other Slavic and Turkic languages. Wikislavia seems to be a website dedicated to a political ideology, mostly (Siberian) nationalists and esoteric Christians. They have a large amount of books and writing dealing with religion, philosophy and folktales.

[edit] Current Wikislavia's press release

Wiki project Wikislavia (http://ru.volgota.com) is developing at truly amazing rate. It has reached the landmark of 100,000 pages, and then surpassed the second largest Russian-language web encyclopedia Wikiznanie becoming the major competitor of Russian subdivision of Wikipedia. Russian Wikipedia has been crawling to this number of articles for several years, while Wikislavia made it in less than one year.

Wikislavia's swift success is partially due to GNU file document license that allows free information exchange between the wikies. The founders of Wikislavia put forward as their first goal collecting the data from several tens of Russian-language wiki projects.

Wikislavia's leaders define their project as maximally free uncensored encyclopedia. The main difference between Wikislavia and Wikipedia is that it is based on the philosophy of inclusionism, that is including virtually all information available through GNU FDL. Wikislavia's team believes that it is not worth wasting time on long discussions regarding the notability of articles' subjects. Instead, they delegate the decision about notability to their readers. There is no article for deletion tag in Wikislavia. They require an encyclopedic style, though.

Wikislavia does not waste time on assigning ranks to the users. There are no elections of administrators and no superior authorities (the so called Arbitration Committee). Any person of good will is invited to Wikislavia, and anyone can become an administrator.

Wikislavia covers a wide range of topics: science, literature, sport, business. It also includes original texts. This range of information is very useful for making cross references.

Thus, new times have come. Wikipedia's monopoly is broken, and it now has a strong competitor. This competion will eventually benefit the readers because it stipulates development and gives more choice.

And what about Wikipedia? As it could be expected, their participants were quite unhappy about the new competitor and immediately entered Wikislavia in their black lists in violation of their own rules (rule violation is a common practice in Russian Wikipedia). Now no user can include a reference to Wikislavia neither in the articles, nor in their user pages.

Wikislavia users only smile to such silly censorship from the so-called free encyclopedia, Wikipedia. They also laugh on many other practices in Wikipedia such as silly discussion about article deletion, bureaucracy and career- making. They wrote a couple of satirical articles about these features, which infuriated many wikipedians.

Overall, Wikislavia users feel very optimistic. "The more high-quality wiki-projects, the better", says Wikislavia's leader Yaroslav Zolotarev.