Shortly after the beginning of the invasion, it was proposed to put up a banner in support of peace between Russia and Ukraine. Wikipedia logo currently displayed on the Georgian Wikipedia As of April 22, there had been no known deaths of Ukrainian contributors to Russian Wikipedia. One user, who lived in besieged Mariupol, stopped contacting us on March 2, and it was not until April 5 that we were able to contact him and learn that he was alive.

Some stopped communicating, while others accessed Russian Wikipedia or related informal chats from a bomb shelter. Many Ukrainian contributors woke up on February 24 to the sound of air defense sirens or explosions. The invasion by Russia, where the largest number of users reside, into Ukraine, where the second largest number of users reside, has greatly affected the Russian Wikipedia community. Russian Wikipedia is a multinational community, edited in the Russian language by users from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United States, Israel, and other countries. The opinions expressed in this piece are those of the author alone. For more information on this topic, see News and notes. Due to the extreme difficulties of editing the Russian-language Wikipedia at this time, we've made an exception in this case.

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