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Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Russian |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
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| Commercial | Charitable |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | May 20, 2001 |
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Creative Commons ShareAlike License 3.0 |
Difficult issues are resolved through the Arbitration Committee, which handles content disputes, blocks users or prohibits certain users from editing articles on certain topics.
Administrators (currently 87) are elected through a vote; a minimal quorum of 30 voters and 66% of support votes are required if the request is to be considered successful. Administrators who have become inactive (i.e. have not used administrative tools, such as "delete" or "block" buttons, at least 25 times in six months) may lose their privileges by an Arbitration Committee decision.
10,340 articles contain material from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
More than 11,000 articles were translated from the .
On 10 July, Nikolai Nikiforov, Russian Minister for Telecommunications and Mass Media announced in his Twitter account, that the organization of the List of the prohibited websites (that was sited on the Law Project No. 89417-6) will be suspended until 1 November 2012. On the same day Yelena Mizulina, a Duma deputy and the head of the subcommittee which sponsored the law, said that the blackout is an attempt to blackmail the Duma and was sponsored by the "pedophile lobby".
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