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LaunchedDecember 12, 2002;21 years ago (2002-12-12)

The Bosnian Wikipedia (Bosnian : Wikipedia na bosanskom jeziku) is the Bosnian language version of Wikipedia, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. As of January 27, 2024, it has 92,833 articles. It was created on December 12, 2002, and its first article was Matematika . [1]

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Community

On February 17, 2007, members of the Bosnian wiki community held the first in-person meet-up event in Sarajevo. [2] Another meeting was held in the same year, followed by meetings in 2008 and 2011. [3]

Media coverage

In 2022, some Bosnian Wikipedia administrators were a target of accusations by several anonymous tabloid sources of promoting "Croatian nationalist political agenda". [4] The articles alleged that "a group of academics, professors and students from Sarajevo with profession in the field of history and politics" faced selective reverting without explanation, negation of Bosnian national identity in favor of ethnic labels (Bosniak, Croat, Serb), as well as discrediting "eminent historians" as reliable sources in articles, favoring "unreliable web portals" instead. [5] In November 2022, an anonymously written article from Preporod, the official gazette of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, repeated the concerns and called for founding of the local "Wikimedia Bosnia and Herzegovina" chapter which would financially and systemically influence the editing practices of Bosnian Wikipedia. [6] None of the authors reached out to or interviewed any Bosnian Wikipedia editors, including the administrators involved, with the latter refuting these accusations based on Wikipedia's policies against original research, editorial synthesis, and meatpuppetry. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "First article Matematika". 12 December 2002. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "First community meeting". 17 February 2007. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Follow up meetings" . Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  4. ↑ Gadžo, Mersiha (6 August 2021). "Promoviraju li hrvatski nacionalisti političku agendu na Wikipediji? Akademici kažu da članovi krajnje desnice šire dezinformacije na Wikipediji na bosanskom jeziku" [Are Croatian nationalists promoting a political agenda on Wikipedia? Academics say members of the far-right are spreading misinformation on the Bosnian-language Wikipedia.] (in Serbo-Croatian). Al Jazeera Balkans . Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  5. ↑ "Kome smeta bosanska historija na Wikipediji?" [Who is disturbed by Bosnian history on Wikipedia?]. klix.ba. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  6. ↑ "Izgubljena bitka za Bosnu na internetu: slučaj Wikipedija" [The lost battle for Bosnia on the Internet: the case of Wikipedia]. Preporod . November 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2022. (page 2)
  7. ↑ V. K. (5 August 2021). "Brisanje sadržaja na bosanskom jeziku: Kako nacionalisti vrše reviziju historije na Wikipediji" [Deleting content in the Bosnian language: How nationalists revise history on Wikipedia]. klix.ba. Retrieved 9 November 2022.


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