Alex756 wrote:
Perhaps they should be asked to relinquish the name. Do Wikipedia want to be associated with porno sites (at least one of the links from their main page link to a Russian porno site, and in Russia you do not need to limit such site access to adults, another liability issue for Wikipedia!
Yep - this is exactly what I have been talking about; Wikipedia.ru is a wiki encyclopedia using the MediaWiki software and is thus nearly indistinguishable from ru.Wikipedia.org. This creates real confusion in readers about which is the real Russian Wikipedia. All we need is for the Russian press to start mentioning Wikipedia.ru as the Russian Wikipedia when writing about that website (which, as you mention, contains adverts we would never allow on any Wikipedia version).
They are not Wikipedia! Thus they should not be using our name.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)