Russian Wikipedia overtook two other Wikipedia at once and reached the 8th place

Many have always believed, and now believe, that Russian Wikipedia is too low in position and does not correspond to the status of the Russian language in the world, and has always fought and is fighting for the more dignified position of the largest Russian encyclopedia, and indeed of the whole Russian-speaking world.

And now two joyful, long-awaited events have just occurred, which we have been waiting for three years (since May 19, 2008 we have overtaken the Swedes and have fallen out of place !). Robots have come to us, in peace! Now Russian Wikipedia in one fell swoop overtook the Dutch and Portuguese Wikipedia. This was made possible thanks to a large-scale project to create articles on the rivers of Russia (the articles were prepared in advance for several months by living participants , but only now they were published at once by a bot).

The overtaking of the Dutch Wikipedia took place on February 24 at 01:12 minutes Moscow time, when 673 457th article “ Ydzhidvozh (Chukli tributary) ” (and maybe “ Shukshur ”) appeared in Russian Wikipedia, written by the LatitudeBot bot .
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The overtaking of the Portuguese Wikipedia took place on February 24 at 01:57 minutes Moscow time, when 674 395 article “ Kaz (Kondomy tributary) ” or “ Kaburchak (Kondomy tributary) ” appeared in Russian Wikipedia, written by the same LatitudeBot bot .

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