

The current information war is revolutionising the use of Kiwix, a Swiss software that has won several innovation awards. Many fear that this defiance will soon see the site banned, as happened already with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. "These repeated demands do not change our commitment to protecting the right… to find and share free, open and verifiable information," says the foundation's spokesperson. On April 5, Roskomnadzor again urged the site to delete "the material containing inaccurate information", warning it could face a fine of up to four million rubles (CHF47,000).įor the time being Wikipedia says it has obeyed no injunction.

The Russian state agency that regulates communications, Roskomnadzor, has faulted Wikipedia for having pages referring to a "Russian invasion of Ukraine", whereas it is illegal to use anything but the official terminology, according to which it is a "special military operation". Since the beginning of March, Wikimedia, the American foundation that runs Wikipedia, "has received several warnings from the Russian government… calling upon it to suppress verified, factual information in the articles", a spokesperson told SWI swissinfo.ch via email. Wikipedia is one of the few sources of information on the Ukraine war not yet censored in Russia, but it is on the Kremlin's radar.


Key issues included concerns about censorship and the possibility of advertising on Wikipedia. The reasons for the split are explained on Enciclopedia Libre. Led by Edgar Enyedy, they left Wikipedia on 26 February 2002, and created the new website, provided by the University of Seville for free, with the freely licensed articles of the Spanish Wikipedia. The Enciclopedia Libre was founded by contributors to the Spanish Wikipedia who decided to start an independent project. It started as a fork of the Spanish Wikipedia.
KIWIX ESPANOL FREE
Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike 3.0Įnciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (English: Universal Free Encyclopedia in Spanish) is a Spanish-language wiki-based online encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0.
