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Lurkmore
(Lurkomorye – Луркоморье)
File:Lurkmore.ru logo.png
Web address lurkmore.to
Type of site
 internet subculture and meme wiki
Registration not required
Available in Russian
Owner David Homak
Launched July 30, 2007[1][2]
Alexa rank
 2,517 (April 2014)[3]

Lurkmore or Lurkomorye (Russian: Луркоморье, a portmanteau of Lukomorye and the English online slang "lurk moar") is an informal Russian-language MediaWiki-powered online encyclopedia focusing on Internet subcultures, folklore, and memes.[4] As of December 1, 2013, Lurkmore contains 6458 articles.[5] It is one of the most popular humor—as well as internet-meme-related—websites of the Russian Internet.[6]

Content and style

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David Homak, Lurkmore co-founder

Lurkmore was started as a knowledge base of Internet memes centered on 2ch.ru, the first popular Russian-language imageboard. With time, the project evolved to encompass the broader Runet subculture. It has been called an "informal encyclopedia" about everything.[7] Currently, Lurkmore comprises a wide range of articles, but a very considerable share of them is still about the Internet culture.

Lurkmore articles use a distinctive style, distinguishing themselves with a general informality, semiseriousness, sarcasm, the free use of foul language, and impudence, as well as by sharp criticism of the shortcomings of the considered phenomena. The articles are also characterized by a specific slang—"lurkoyaz" (луркояз)—consisting of Internet slang, assorted words used by padonki and Kashchenists, as well as Lurkmore's own neologisms.

Rules and policies

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Our rules are very simple and comprehensible.

  • Everything for the lulz.
  • But facts come before the lulz.
  • Do not lie.
  • Be yourself.
  • The Creator of the Internets is always right.
    — The entire text of the Lurkmore.to policies page[8]

Audience

Remarkable feature of the project is concealment of IP addresses of anonymous participants in the history of editings of articles for all except administrators. The inscription of "Anonimus" is displayed instead of IP addresses . The registered participants having a flag of the autoconfirmed participant also have an opportunity to leave any editing not under the name, and anonymously.

Fleeting block in Russia

On 11 November 2012, the IP address of Lurkmore.to was added to the Russian Internet blacklist by decision of the Russian Federal Surveillance Service for Mass Media and Communications, making it inaccessible from most Russian ISPs.[9][10][11] A Lurkmore.to owner told journalists that he had not received any communication from Roskomnadzor or the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia before the IP address was blacklisted.[10][12] Lurkmore.to was removed from the blacklist on 13 November 2012 after the website administrators deleted two marijuana-related articles.[13] In 2015 Homak declared on his Facebook profile that the project will be frozen and become a "culture memorial" due to increasing pressure from Roskomnadzor and other law enforcement agencies,[14] and he left Russia due to general development of situation in Russia.[15]

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See also: Internet censorship in Russia

Awards

  • Finalist of the 2008 ru competition in the humor site of the year category.[16]
  • Winner of the 2009 ROTOR competition in the humor site of the year category.[17]
  • Winner of the 2011 AntiROTOR competition.
  • Winner of the 2012 ROTOR competition in the archive site of the year category.[18]
  • Winner of four 2012 AntiRotor nominations.
  • Winner of the Golden Joker prize, ceremony organized by a humoristic magazine Maxim.[19]

See also

References

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External links

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