Factograf Adds 13,123 Original Articles on Christian Saints
The multilingual encyclopedia Factograf has launched a project of more than 13,000 original articles about Christian saints, available in several language versions.
The multilingual encyclopedia Factograf, developed by Haydamax Laboratory, has published original articles on 13,123 Christian saints. Including language versions, the platform's total number of articles about saints comes to about 157,000, making this thematic set one of the largest on the site.
Factograf is a separate internet project that reads nearly 340 language editions of Wikipedia and presents their articles in its own layout, which the developers describe as more convenient for reading. The site's interface is available in 12 languages. In addition to materials taken from Wikipedia, the platform publishes its own original articles. Readers can write texts themselves and propose edits to existing publications, which turns the encyclopedia into an open, participatory environment.
Articles about saints have been published in at least several languages, including English, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Polish, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Japanese and Chinese. Each of these articles is available in all 12 interface languages of the site, so a user can read a saint's biography in their native language, regardless of the language in which the original source was created.
The publication took place in October 2026. The articles about saints appeared on the platform this month, and the last language versions were added on October 23. Thus, the entire project was completed within one month, which made it possible to cover a significant number of saints and language versions in a short time.
For readers from different countries and confessional traditions, this format means access to encyclopedic information about saints without having to search for it across several separate sources. At the same time, the project demonstrates how multilingual wiki infrastructure can be used for thematic sections devoted to particular groups of figures. According to the developers, Factograf combines materials translated from Wikipedia with its own publications, and it is this combination that forms the basis of its structure.
Since the project covers thousands of figures, its further expansion and editing will depend on the participation of users, who can propose edits and new texts. There is no information about official responses from churches, theological institutions or other external reactions to the publication in the available material, so the project's further development should be followed directly on the platform.
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