[Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On 10.07.2013 20:45, Tomasz W. Kozlowski wrote:
> Hi again,
> so I spent some time looking into the problem and wrote a short
> summary at
> http://twkozlowski.net/russian-wikipedia-under-threat-again/
> (<shameless promotion mode="off" />) -- if anyone cares about what's
> happening outside of the US, that is.
> 
> As described in the summary, there are plans for a massive strike on
> the Russian Internet (Runet) on August 1, with the bill being
> described as the Russian equivalent of SOPA. It also looks to me like
> there is some public opposition against the bill (a petition to the
> President of Russia already has over 130,000 signatures with just
> 100,000 being required), so the situation is developing quite
> interestingly.
> 
> -- Tomasz
> 

Hi Tomasz,

my understanding is that just today Russian Wikipedia Community started 
an RFC on the issue

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%9E%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8B/%D0%9E_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0

I do not see any reaction whatsoever from Wikimedia.ru , but from our 
WLM experience you probably remember that they are ... hmm ... not the 
fastest to react, and usually only do it after other people start 
complaining that they do not.

Since I am not involved with the Russian Wikipedia for over two years, 
I could have missed some important developments.

Cheers
Yaroslav