WikiZnanie

WikiZnanie () is a Russian language WikiWiki encyclopedia released under the FreeBSD Documentation License license and created in 2003. It uses the MediaWiki software. The name derives from wiki and znanie, which is Russian for knowledge. It is considered the largest Russian-language wiki not owned by the Wikimedia Foundation
In 2006, WikiZnanie added over 100000 articles. As of August 2009, WikiZnanie has over 112,000 articles (compared with over 427,000 on the Russian ). The main part (about 95-98%) of its content comes from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, which was published in Imperial Russia in 1890-1906.
WikiZnanie differs from the (and Russian ) project by licensing under the BSL DPL (instead of GFDL or CC-BY-SA 3.0) and displaying of commercial ads on article pages. It also allows original research (which must, if possible, use the methodology of scientific research) and encourages "multiple points of view" rather than "neutral point of view" in articles. It has servers in Moscow for faster access to pages from Russian territory and uses advertisements to secure financial support.
The author and webmaster of the project is Andrey Vovk (wznan:user:Vovkav).

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