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Sunday, July 1, 2018

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The Institute of economics and management in industry located in Moscow, Russia sent an official confirmation to Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository run by Wikimedia Foundation, allowing to release the ‘All Russia’ encyclopedia published by the Institute under a free licence. Wikimedia Commons confirmed the permission and uploaded the file on 26 June 2018.

According to the “University Book” (??????????????? ?????) online portal and according to the Wikimedia Russia chapter, ‘All Russia’ became the first paper encyclopedia in Russia to be released under a free licence.

The permission came in the form from the head of the institute, Oleg Arkadevich Mikheev, to an official Wikimedia Commons address which is processed by volunteers to confirm the licensing permissions of newly created uploads. After the permission confirmation, a licensing volunteer from Wikimedia Commons whose Wikimedia username was ‘Lvova’, uploaded the file at 14:15 (UTC) on 26 June 2018.

The encyclopedia had an alphabetic index of cities and localities in Russia. Specifically according to the introduction at the beginning of the encyclopedia, 1448 localities are included of the Russian Federation, including 1051 cities, 366 settlements, 25 villages, 5 stations, and one sloboda — a large village or settlement, usually populated by non-serf (free) peasants — Bolshaya Martynivka. The encyclopedia was first published in 2001.

The free licence was Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International. It allowed everybody to copy, distribute and transmit the work, and to adapt the work, under the conditions of attribution and sharing alike. Sharing alike required that person, if they alter, transform, or build upon this work, they may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

The Wikimedia Russia chapter, a non-profit supporting Wikimedia projects in Russia, has responded by publishing a press release in which they endorsed the move.

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