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Ruwiki interface looks nice, but to me, at least, its sluggish (scrolling is very slow for some reason). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here}

I concur. I tried looking at a dozen articles or so, and I kept getting mostly AI stuff. They have changed the layout somewhat from when they started, looks nice, but doesn't perform as well. On Wikipedia content is king. The format is nice and conservative and doesn't distract from the content. It looks like an encyclopedia. We could do a slightly better job getting videos and other multimedia integrated into the content. You can do it, but it's not often easy. We're pretty close to a sweet spot though. Twitter/X and Reddit always look like dog droppings to me, and the flashy sites are hiding a lack of content. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 04:04, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is also an interesting-looking recent academic paper about Ruwiki which looks at some of these questions in more detail:

Trokhymovych, Mykola; Kosovan, Oleksandr; Forrester, Nathan; Aragón, Pablo; Saez-Trumper, Diego; Baeza-Yates, Ricardo (2025-04-14), Characterizing Knowledge Manipulation in a Russian Wikipedia Fork, arXiv, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2504.10663

(In case someone is interested in reviewing or summarizing it for the Signpost's "Recent research" section/the Wikimedia Research Newsletter, feel free to call dibs in our Etherpad.)

Regards, HaeB (talk) 04:19, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Any particular reason to say für not for? (In more comprehensive, neutral, and up to date, and with AI support für users.) Or is it just the jumble one ends up in when speaking two languages fluently? (I get that.) — Alien 3
3 3 06:38, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like a botched copyediting, can be fixed. Deinocheirus (talk) 11:11, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]