Croatian language Wikipedia
  Hrvatska Wikipedija (Croatian Wikipedia) |
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| Slobodna enciklopedija | |
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| languages | Croatian |
| operator | Wikimedia Foundation |
| editorial staff | Wikipedia community |
| Registration | Possible |
| Annual income | no |
| On-line | 2003 (currently active) |
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The Croatian-language Wikipedia ( Croatian Wikipedija na hrvatskome jeziku ) is the edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Croatian .
In July 2020 it counted almost 221,000 articles, 17 administrators , 5 bureaucrats and 241,422 registered users; it belongs to the group of language versions for Slavic languages .
History and statistics
Beginning
The Croatian Wikipedia began in early 2003. On February 16, 2003, the first article "Hrvatski jezik" ( German : Croatian language ) was created. From 2006 to 2007 the number of employees rose by leaps and bounds. The thousand mark for articles was reached in February 2004, the ten thousand mark in October 2005 and the hundred thousand mark in July 2011.
As of December 2014, the Croatian Wikipedia has over 150,000 articles. In April 2018, the number of articles was around 200,000.
Community
The users ( Croatian Suradnici ) come mainly from Croatia ; most of them speak Croatian as their mother tongue. There are 25 admins (13 active) and 5 crats . There are between 500 and 1,000 active users per month.
On October 8, 2008, a meeting between the Croatian Wikipedia and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales took place in Zagreb .
The operator of the Croatian Wikipedia and all other language versions of the free Internet encyclopedia is the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco , USA .
Content
As with all other Wikipedia editions, the content depends primarily on user contributions. In addition to topics that are traditionally associated with the Slavic and Croatian language and culture, such as the Balkan Peninsula , Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Burgenland Croats , there are z. B. also several thousand articles on living people (among others Nikola Tesla , Franjo Tuđman ) or topics related to the country.
There are over 730 excellent articles.
Controversy
In 2013, international media reported on the right-wing orientation of the Croatian Wikipedia in relation to history , Serbs or LGBT . Right-wing extremists “took over” the Croatian Wikipedia and played down the Ustasha regime, which persecuted Serbs, Jews and homosexuals during the Second World War and killed over 300,000 people.
For these reasons, the Croatian Minister of Education, Science and Sport Željko Jovanović asked students not to use the Croatian Wikipedia.
According to Jovanović , most of the articles referring to Croatia during the Second World War were not only misleading but also falsified. The articles would be written pro-fascist and anti-communist .
Balkan Insight reported in 2018 that articles related to the Ustaše in the Croatian-language Wikipedia are ideologically colored and war crimes are played down in it. Concentration camps are known as "collective camps". The list of named victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp is called false and it is claimed that the camp will continue to be used under communist rule after the World War, for which there is no scientifically tenable evidence.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official Wikimedia statistics for the Croatian Wikipedia
- ↑ As of September 2019
- ↑ How pro-fascist ideologues are rewriting Croatia's history ( English ) The Daily Dot. October 1, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ↑ Jovanovićeva poruka učenicima i studentima: Ne koristite hrvatsku Wikipediju! ( Croatian ) index.hr . September 13, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ↑ How pro-fascist ideologues are rewriting Croatia's history ( English ) The Daily Dot. October 1, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ↑ Sven Milekic: How Croatian Wikipedia Made a Concentration Camp Disappear. In: balkaninsight.com . March 26, 2018, accessed October 11, 2019.
