Should have forked Conservepedia - it's already fucking stupid to start with.
You don't fork what's yours to start with.
My peas beg to differ.
Is Wikipedia but Russian! Is best Wikipedia!
Assuming it still allows community edits, some brave soul is probably going to go all [Citation needed] on it and probably end up in a gulag.
Blyatipedia page for “Gulag”:
Comrade, Gulag is wonderful place, many nice people and beautiful beaches. Food is amazing and lots of beautiful women. You get a new set of clothes and your very own room, which is very secure. You will have the best time!
40 virgins for everybody.
In Russian gulag, you are the virgin.
MAGA Make America Gulag Again
If you make an edit —-> GULAG
If you don't make an edit, gulag
We have best wiki in the world, because of gulag.
Make edit, but make typo: shit that cancels out but still gulag for finding loophole in system. The system is flawless; it’s you who is wrong. Oh yea, did we mention gulag?
But Putin's stooges already did this. Apparently one dictator-oriented misinformation spewing Conservapedia wasn't enough. Gotta have two, I guess.
In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia searches you!
In Putinist Russia an article deletes you!
As awful as state controlled media is I look forward to reading the absurdities. The absolute distain communists have for jeans is absolutely hilarious, durable clothing made for sailors and miners is a sign of western opulence.
Why wait? You can go read conservapedia right now. Just as absurd, but possibly less Russian.
Not by a lot, I reckon
What does communism have to do with the Russian government? Russia abandoned communism 34 years ago.
The communists used state controlled media... Just like the Russians. Governments can only get away with saying crazy shit, like blue jeans are the devil, when there is no one to keep them in check.
Russian truthiness.
Wankerpedia
Suspect this might be clickbait, they didn't ban the original wiki. I've asked a friend of mine from Russia to verify this and they were able to access the 'old' wiki, both English and Russian version just fine.
But Putin's stooges already did this. Apparently one dictator-oriented misinformation spewing Conservapedia wasn't enough. Gotta have two, I guess.
Not a big fan of carving up the internet like this.
Have you brought your concern up to the Russian government?
Why would they listen to me? Lol.
That's my point.
This is my exact response every time someone suggests federating wikipedia. This is exactly what you will get.
The world needs to carve a Russian sized hole in the internet. it would be best for all of us.
No it wouldn't.
I can’t believe everyone is missing the Star Trek:::
Wikipedia is best it the original Russian.
as long as they don't block ru.wikipedia.org, i don't see it getting too much traction.
They seem to have banned it
Article says they ban the original.
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