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So what does it mean in practice for Russian Wikipedia? What did Russian Wikimedia Chapter do? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:17, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes I am wondering about this as well. Will ru.wikipedia be closed? Or just the organization? I am sure ru.wikipedia didn't need any organization to run perfectly. ✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 02:30, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Russian Wikipedia will continue since it is hosted on international servers. I assume there will be reduced support for local initiatives like edit-a-thons, but it would be good to know what exactly ru wiki was doing that now will be abandoned. What is the damage - and what can WMF do to mitigate this? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:59, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

You can see a number of reports about "what exactly ru wiki was doing" here in English (smaller number) and in Russian (much bigger number). For reading Russian reports, you may use an automatic translator. If you're interested in reports about Russian Wikipedia, go to n:ru:Русская_Википедия. If you're interested in reports about Wikimedia Russia, go to n:ru:Викимедиа_РУ. -- ssr (talk) 16:00, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

In fact, nobody cares about all these things for decades =))) You say: "what can WMF do to mitigate this?". I answer: WMF don't care about this, so cannot do anything.-- ssr (talk) 16:17, 28 December 2023 (UTC)