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Russia plans 'alternative Wikipedia'
Source: BBC
14 November 2014 Last updated at 21:41 GMT
Russia plans 'alternative Wikipedia'
Russia is planning an alternative version of the Wikipedia, the country's presidential library has said.
A statement said the initiative aimed to provide better information about Russia than is available on Wikipedia.
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Some 50,000 books and documents had been collected, it said, to portray Russia "objectively and accurately".
But the new site has some catching up to do - Wikipedia is the world's sixth most popular website. The Russian edition has more than one million entries.
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Russia plans 'alternative Wikipedia'
Russia is planning an alternative version of the Wikipedia, the country's presidential library has said.
A statement said the initiative aimed to provide better information about Russia than is available on Wikipedia.
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Some 50,000 books and documents had been collected, it said, to portray Russia "objectively and accurately".
But the new site has some catching up to do - Wikipedia is the world's sixth most popular website. The Russian edition has more than one million entries.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30058048
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