Wikipedia is powered by MediaWiki, a free and open-source software that is also the infrastructure for many other wiki-based online encyclopedias. These include the recently launched website Ruwiki, which has copied and modified the original Russian Wikipedia content to conform to Russian law. To identify practices and narratives that could be associated with different forms of knowledge manipulation, this article presents an in-depth analysis of this Russian Wikipedia fork. We propose a methodology to characterize the main changes with respect to the original version. The foundation of this study is a comprehensive comparative analysis of more than 1.9M articles from Russian Wikipedia and its fork. Using meta-information and geographical, temporal, categorical, and textual features, we explore the changes made by Ruwiki editors. Furthermore, we present a classification of the main topics of knowledge manipulation in this fork, including a numerical estimation of their scope. This research not only sheds light on significant changes within Ruwiki, but also provides a methodology that could be applied to analyze other Wikipedia forks and similar collaborative projects.

本研究针对俄罗斯维基百科分支Ruwiki中的知识操控问题，提出了一种新的方法论，以评估与原版维基百科相比的主要变化。通过对超过190万篇文章的综合比较分析，研究揭示了Ruwiki中知识操控的主要主题及其范围，提供了对类似协作项目的分析方法，具有重要的学术价值和应用潜力。

俄罗斯维基百科分支中知识操控的特征