The Russian Wikipedia (Russian: Русская Википедия, romanized: Russkaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. As of May 2023, it has 1,918,303 articles. It was started on 11 May 2001. In October 2015, it became the sixth-largest Wikipedia by the number of articles. It has the sixth-largest number of edits (130 million). In June 2020, it was the world's 6th most visited language Wikipedia (after the English, the Japanese, the Spanish, the German and the French Wikipedias). It is the largest Wikipedia written in any Slavic language, surpassing its nearest rival, the Polish Wikipedia, eightfold by the parameter of depth. In addition, the Russian Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia written in Cyrillic or in a script other than Latin script. In April 2016, the project had 3,377 active editors who made at least five contributions in that month, ranking third behind the English and Spanish versions. It is the most popular Wikipedia in many former Soviet republics and the second most popular in others. As of 2022, most notably, it is the most popular language version of Wikipedia in both Russia and Ukraine. More information...
According to PR-model, ru.wikipedia.org is ranked 663rd in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 79th in Russian Wikipedia.
The website is placed before philly.com and after islamweb.net in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
