Draft:Siberian Wikipedia
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Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
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| Available in | Fictitious "artificial Siberian language" |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Yaroslav Zolotaryov |
| Editor | "Siberian-language" Wikipedia community |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 1 October 2006 – 19 September 2007 (closure), 5 November 2007 (deletion) |
| Current status | Deleted |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Siberian Wikipedia (Сиби́рска Википе́ддя, Sibirska Wikipeddya) is a closed and subsequently deleted edition of Wikipedia in the fictitious "artificial Siberian language".[1][2] Zolotarev justifies the creation of this language by his passion for Siberian regionalism. According to him, Siberian old-timer dialects were taken as a basis, their grammar was used, and the vocabulary was "archaised". Also, Tatar roots and borrowings from Pomor dialects, Ukrainian and Belarusian languages were mixed into the Siberian language. The language was made to be partially incomprehensible to native Russian speakers.[1]
On 1 October 2006, a Wikipedia edition was created in this language. An application to open a Wikipedia edition in Siberian as a natural language was rejected due to disagreement of the Wikimedia Foundation management. A second application, presenting Siberian as an artificial language, was accepted on 1 October 2006.
As of 2007, there were about 7,000 articles in that edition, of which about 5,000 were empty drafts of articles about years with the phrase "I need to add something to this article, since there’s not enough written here". Some of the other articles were corrected articles from the Belarusian Wikipedia. The Siberian edition had a clearly expressed anti-Russian sentiment, which violated the rule on a neutral point of view adopted in other Wikipedia editions. As Russian Wikipedia bureaucrat Maxim Votyakov (MaxiMaxiMax) noted, another point of view "is not implied there, because no one will write in this language in order to correct this situation".[1]
As a result, a discussion about closing the Siberian Wikipedia was opened. In it, Zolotaryov argued that phrases like "Moskal'ska bastard" are not offensive in Siberian, allegedly misunderstood by native Russian speakers, and defended the use of foul language in translations of Shakespeare into Siberian, arguing that they "contrast the democratic code with the elitist code. [He] translated it as it would sound in a Siberian village." During this discussion, the closure was more likely to be supported by Russians and supporters of Wikipedia as a project, and more likely to be opposed by Ukrainians, Eastern Europeans, anarchists and liberals.[1] As a result of the vote, the edition was closed on 19 September 2007.[3], before later being deleted on 5 November that year.[4][5] Supporters of the Siberian language project believe that opposition to it is due to the fact that it frightened the authorities.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Favorov, Pyotr (14 March 2007). "Маршал говоров" Marshal govorov [The Marshal of Talking Points]. Большой город Bol'shoy gorod [Big City] (in Russian). Moscow, Russia: Afisha. Archived from the original on 15 October 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
- ^ Nikolay, Vakhtin (2016). Peer, A. M. (ed.). Языки Сибири и Севера Yazyki Sibiri i Severa [Languages of Siberia and the North] (PDF) (in Russian). Saint Petersburg, Russia: Nestor-History, European University at Saint Petersburg. p. 39. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
- ^ "Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Siberian Wikipedia". Meta-Wiki. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
- ^ "Proposals for closing projects/Deletion of Siberian Wikipedia". Meta-Wiki. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
- ^ Kazinik, Mikhail; Tkachev, Dmitry (25 October 2011). Granger, David M. (ed.). "Пятиминутный путеводитель по сибирскому сепаратизму" Pyatiminutnyy putevoditel' po sibirskomu separatizmu [A five-minute guide to Siberian separatism]. Esquire Russia (at the time), Правила жизни (currently) Pravila zhizni [Rules of Life] (in Russian). No. 71. Moscow, Russia: Hearst Communications. Archived from the original on 13 November 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
- ^ "На разных языках" Na raznykh yazykakh [In different languages]. Регион.Эксперт Region-Ekspert [Region.Expert] (in Russian). 14 February 2021. Archived from the original on 5 March 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
External links
[edit]- Main page of the Siberian Wikipedia at the Wayback Machine (archived 12 July 2007) (in "Siberian")
- Sibwiki (in "Siberian")
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