User:Kpjas/Signpost/Russian Interwiki Report



Report from the Russian Wikipedia
 * By MaxSem, ??? 2006

Status and community news
As of Saturday, 18 November 2006, the Wikipedia in Russian contained about 117,000 articles. Of these, 117 articles (approximately 1 in 957) are considered избранные (selected, the Russian Wikipedia equivalent of featured articles). The latest three additions to the list of featured articles are: X Window System (X Window System), Cate Blanchett (Кейт Бланшетт) and MTV-82 (МТВ-82). The community also have a project on selection of good articles хорошие, of which the latest are Ayrton Senna (Айртон Сенна да Силва), Aeroflot Russian Airlines (Аэрофлот) and Compaq Computer Corporation (Compaq).

The Russian Wikipedia borrows featured pictures from Wikimedia Commons having no initiative on selecting featured images in-house, despite the 29,000+ files already uploaded.
 * Alternatively you can list here featured images from the Commons by users from the Russian Wikipedia.
 * Probably, Panther could be helpful in this question ACrush ?!/© 09:05, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I'm not watching for featured pictures, and I can list only my two images (and I strong dislike one of them). Maybe we need to ask our users at the russian Village pump. --Ptr ru 19:38, 18 November 2006 (UTC) (ru:User:Panther)

As of 18 November 2006, 43 users of the Russian Wikipedia are administrators. This makes 0.13% of users out of a total number of 32,625 registered users.

RfA and RfB reform
In September 2006 bureaucrat Drbug speedily closed Obersachse's request for bureaucratship stating that he is not ready to promote without a formal RfB policy. After two concurrent proposals were heavily criticized, community carried the approval poll about details of RfA and RfB process. As a result, vote was extended from one week to two, and section for neutral vote has been removed (all neutral opinions should go to the general discussion section and will be taken into account only if consensus is unclear). Also, all elector should have at least 100 edits and 3 months of editing experience.

People's inspection
Recently on Russian Wikipedia a new project was started - ru:Википедия:Проект:Народный контроль. It was planned as some kind of Public Prosecutions. Members of the project will supervise on administrators, bureaucrats and checkusers; will collect complaints on their wrong activities and may collectively bring an action in Arbitration Committee. --Vlad Jaroslavleff 18:14, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Another section
Some interesting story or development in the Russian Wikipedia. Something to brag about or impress the conceited English Wikipedia ;-)

Another section
Quality improvement drive ? A writing contest ? Something like this

Prizes
Any prizes for the Ru Wikipedia or Wikipedians

Media reports
Media (press, TV, Radio, websites) coverage of Ru Wikipedia, growth etc.

Wikipedia Meetups/Meetings/Rallys
Something about this ?

Sister projects
Apart from the Wikipedia, there are several Wikimedia projects in Russian language.

PLEASE EDIT BELOW AS NEEDED They are:
 * Wikinews, called Викиновости in Russian that was started on Nov 2nd 2005
 * Wikisource, called Викитека that was started on Aug 1st 2005
 * Wikiquote, called Викицитатник that was started on Sen 21st 2004
 * Wikibooks, called Викиучебник that was started on Jul 24th 2004
 * and Wiktionary, called Викисловарь that was started on May 1st 2004