According to a press release from Russian ' Wikipedia ', the increase in the number of articles forced artificially: for short term volunteers have created tens of thousands of articles on the towns of Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, Bulgaria - transferring the relevant articles of the Spanish, Portuguese and Bulgarian Wikipedia under the .
At the time of this writing in Russian ' Wikipedia ', there are 283 628 articles. Two months ago it was announced on overcoming ' foreign ' 250000th article. Thus, from late March to late May of materials ' Wikipedia ' has more than 30,000.
Russian ' Wikipedia ' is the largest Russian universal encyclopedia, more than half as much superior to the modern great encyclopaedia ' Terra ' ( in which 160,000 articles in 2006 ) and Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron (121 240 articles in 31 volume) and more than .
With regard to global statistics, has been and remains the largest English-language section of Wikipedia, numbering more than 2,375,000 articles.
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