On March 1, after a week of horrors in Ukraine, reports emerged that Ukraine's censorship office Russiaς had threatened to block the Russian Wikipedia.
Alexander, 32, had a plan: to download a local copy of the Russian Wikipedia.
"Το έκανα για κάθε ενδεχόμενο", Reported πριν προσθέσει ότι αυτός και η σύζυγός του "ετοιμαζόταν να μετακομίσουν σε άλλη χώρα" μαζί με τα δύο σκυλιά τους, τον Prime και τον Shaggy.
Instagram has been blocked in Russia, but there are many who continue to access it using virtual private networks. On Monday, the Russian government officially declared the Facebook και το Instagram "εξτρεμιστικές οργανώσεις."
Alexander was not the only Russian citizen to download Wikipedia. The data shows that after the censorship threats, Russians started to download it en masse online encyclopaedia.
Currently, Russia is the most downloaded country on Wikipedia. Before the invasion, the country wasn't even in top 10, but after February 24, Russia is consistently in first place.
The 29-gigabyte file containing a Russian-language Wikipedia was downloaded 105.889 times in the first half of March, up 4.000 percent from the first half of January.
Let us remind you that something similar happened in 2017 when the Turkey block Wikipedia.
Wikipedia offers publicly to download its databases. The entire English Wikipedia is 87 GB with photos or 47 GB without. The Russian Wikipedia is even smaller, with 1,8 million articles compared to the 6,4 million English version.
