With these Wikipedia blockages, our state is acting on the principle of “cutting off the nose to spite the face”. Wikipedia doesn’t earn money from advertising, therefore, 30 million people a month (5%) from Russia are not as significant to it as to, say, the same audience for Google, YouTube, or Facebook. Okay, maybe they won’t watch – they won’t contribute? But donations from Russia – $442K out of $24000K a year, which is 2%. In Italy, donations are 1.5 times higher with a population (and therefore audience coverage) three times smaller and half the number of page loads compared to Russia. Something to think about, who actually got punished.
It would be utterly absurd to say “let’s create our own local Wikipedia.” Cyril and Methodius?…
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 