Russian Wiki Encyclopedia "Tradition" now contains 27,000 articles

This morning, having completed the work on the article “Aztecization” on the Wiki “ Tradition ”, I was pleased to find that this article was twenty-seven thousandth in a row.

Taking this milestone, the achievement of this coverage pleases me a lot. In Russia, only four encyclopedic wiki surpass the tradition in the number of articles: these are two specialized encyclopedias about cinema (“ Encyclopedia of cinema RuData ”, with 340,769 articles, and “ Everything about cinema ”, with 47,406 articles), as well as two research and educational projects (“ Virtual Laboratory ”, containing 204,082 articles, and the project “ Annals, ” where 43,091 articles).

It seems that this is a reason to talk about the Tradition in Habrahabr.
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Viki Tradition was created on May 16, 2006 on the initiative of two Russian nationalists - Konstantin Anatolyevich Krylov and Sergey Alexandrovich Nesterovich. (This May, Wikipedia turned ten years old , and the Traditions, therefore, five years.) Krylov and Nesterovich believed that in the interests of the Russian people a free encyclopedia and library of copyright texts is needed to present the Russian point of view on certain circumstances - like as Wikipedia expresses the “neutral point of view” of a human being. Over time, this led to the fact that in the Tradition those comparisons and the own conclusions of the authors of the articles (on Wikipedia, punishable as “original research”) that follow the national Russian spirit became possible and even desirable.

Another notable distinction of Tradition from Wikipedia is the condescending attitude towards the free use of works , whereas in Wikipedia the rule is rather the use of free works (and therefore Wikipedia articles often remain under-illustrated in favor of copyright and the right-sellers). Also in the Tradition there is no presumption of insignificance of the subject of the article.

From a technical point of view (namely, it is primarily interested in readers of the blog "Wiki-technology" on Habrahabr) the encyclopedia "Tradition" should be considered as the wiki, which (first among other wikis, as far as I know) has implemented a half-dozen interesting useful wiki technologies:

• The modified EmbedVideo extension allows you to provide articles with video illustrations from a variety of providers (YouTube, Google Video, RuTube, Vimeo, BlipTV, Video@Mail.Ru, NewsTube, Channel One and News), as well as video streams (ustream), slides (SlideShare ), photo panoramas (Gigapan) and sound recordings. Not surprisingly, this extension was gladly borrowed from the Tradition and is used in several other Russian wikis ( in Wikireality , in the Cyclopaedia ).
  
• Storing jQuery on the wiki, which I previously mentioned on Habrahabr ([ 1 ], [ 2 ]), allows you to update jQuery separately from the MediaWiki engine, as well as easily supply plug-ins, controlling yourself on the history of revisions to the code stored on the wiki.
  
• Automatic popup of footnote content when you hover your mouse over a footnote icon is achieved by using qTip , one of these plugins for jQuery. (Automatic ascent of the footnote, you see, is much more convenient for the reader than the deployment only after mouse poking, used in Lurkmor.)
  
• The MathJax library is used in Tradition to display mathematical formulas using Java scripts — it is much more economical than loading a server with a raster graphics drawing.
  
• The OpenStreetMap maps on the miniature free Leaflet engine (including those with icons placed on the maps) can be embedded in any Traditions article (for example, “ Russian March 4 November 2010 ”) using the WikiLeaflet template set. One such map has recently been hanging on the title page (in the "Map of the Day" block), taking turns as news of current nationalist events is received.

Perhaps the only technical problem of the Tradition is not a particularly significant power of the servers serving it. (For example, ahead of time I’m feeling that the servers will not endure the habra effect - so the hyperlinks from my blog post will not be immediately accessible to all Habrahabr readers. I apologize in advance.) The reason is simple: like Wikipedia, the Tradition wiki relies on donations from readers (Webmoney, Bitcoin) to maintain their performance, and inevitably have to live within their means.