The Bosnian Wikipedia (Bosnian: Wikipedia na bosanskom jeziku) is the Bosnian language version of Wikipedia, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. As of 30 December 2024, it has 94,189 articles. It was created on 12 December 2002, and its first article was Matematika.[1]
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Screenshot  The homepage of the Bosnian Wikipedia. | |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Bosnian |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | bs.wiki.x.io |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 12 December 2002 |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
Community
editOn 17 February 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
editIn 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]
Notes
edit- The Bosnian language officially uses two scripts, Latin and Cyrillic; however, the Bosnian-language Wikipedia does not feature a script converter like the Serbian and Serbo-Croatian language editions do.
- Bosnian is one of four standardized varieties of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language, making the practice of copying content between the four Wikipedias (Serbo-Croatian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian) with none or minimal textual changes easy and common.
References
edit- ^ "First article Matematika". 12 December 2002. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ^ "First community meeting". 17 February 2007. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ^ "Follow up meetings". Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Kome smeta bosanska historija na Wikipediji?" [Who is disturbed by Bosnian history on Wikipedia?]. klix.ba. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ "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)
- ^ 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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