Serbian language Wikipedia
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| Internet encyclopedia | |
| languages | Serbian |
| operator | Wikimedia Foundation |
| editorial staff | All employees |
| items | over 631,000 |
| Registration | option |
| On-line | February 16, 2003 (currently active) |
| //sr.wikipedia.org/ | |
The Serbian Wikipedia ( Serbian Википедија на српском језику Vikipedija na srpskom jeziku ) is the Wikipedia in Serbian . The Serbian language Wikipedia was founded on February 16, 2003, on November 20, 2009 the 100,000. Article written. In March 2020 it had over 631,000 articles, which makes it the largest Wikipedia of a South Slavic language variety and the 20th place of all Wikipedia language versions. It had around 260,000 users, 888 of whom were active.
history
The Serbian language Wikipedia was set up on February 16, 2003 together with the Croatian language Wikipedia . Before that there was a unified Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia , which continues to exist. The main page was translated from English into Serbian on April 22, 2003 by an unknown user with the IP address 80.131.158.32 (possibly from Freiburg in Germany) and user Nikola Smolenski finished the translation on May 24, 2003.
During September 2003 Nikola Smolenski wrote basic articles and in the October issue of Svet kompjutera his article was published on wikis and Wikipedia . Soon more users, both logged in and anonymous, began to participate. In October 2003 Nikola Smolenski translated the user interface into Serbian.
variants
The Serbian language uses two alphabets , the Cyrillic and the Latin alphabet . There are also two official dialects : Ekavian and Ijekavian . If you combine the scripts and the dialects, there are four different variants (Ekavian Cyrillic, Ijekavian Cyrillic, Ekavian Latin and Ijekavian Latin).
When the Serbian Wikipedia was founded, it only used the Cyrillic alphabet and both standard dialects. However, since both alphabets are used equally by Serbian native speakers, efforts have been made to enable the parallel use of both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. The first attempt was to use a dynamic transliteration bot for each article. Over 1,000 articles were transliterated before the execution was stopped due to technical difficulties. The concept was later abandoned in favor of a model adopted by the Chinese-language Wikipedia . After a few months the software was completed and now every visitor had the option to choose between both alphabets by using tabs above each article. There are special tags that are used to indicate which words will not be transliterated (for example, names and words written in a foreign language). The anti-transliteration tags used are:
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-{text here}-, which prevents the transliteration of the article text, and -
or__БЕЗКН__, which prevents the transliteration of the lemma.
While there are still technical problems, the Cyrillic-Latin transliteration works for the most part.
However, the Ekavisch-Ijekavisch conversion is much more complicated and its implementation is not yet complete. It will probably require extensive tables of words in Ekavian and Ijekavian forms. This is probably the first successful attempt to develop software that allows parallel work in all four variants of the Serbian language.
Community
As of February 15, 2005, the members of the Serbian Wiki community had regular meetings in Belgrade (usually at the Belgrade Youth Center ) and there have been more than a hundred of them in the past four years. On December 3, 2005, they founded the Wikimedia Foundation's local branch for Serbia and Montenegro . This was the fifth local Wikimedia Foundation subsidiary established in the world. After the separation from Serbia and Montenegro, the local branch changed its name to Wikimedia Serbia .
Wikimedia Serbia hosted all four Wikimedia conferences for South Eastern Europe.
Content
The Serbian language Wikipedia works together with the Faculties of Mathematics, Organizational Sciences and Mining and Geology of the University of Belgrade and the University of Megatrend ; Students from these faculties occasionally write articles for the Serbian language Wikipedia.
Because of the similarity of the Serbo-Croatian languages ( Serbian , Croatian , Serbo-Croatian and Bosnian ) there is the possibility of copying and adapting articles from one language version of this Wikipedia to another. Another Serbian language project, the Serbian-language Wikinews, had more than 52,000 articles in October 2010, so the Wikipedia articles can often be linked to the breaking news.
A controversy arose in 2006 when some 10,000 articles about French communities were bot created. The problem was that such articles required transcription and the process was slow.
About 1500 handwritten articles, some of which deal with topics related to social work that even the English language Wikipedia did not have, were bot uploaded from the social work lexicon to the Serbian language Wikipedia after its author Ivan Vidanović offered to use it under GFDL to publish.
Between September and October 2007 new articles about more than 4300 cities in Serbia and 1250 cities in Montenegro were created by bot. Existing articles (over 1600 cities from Serbia and 80 cities from Montenegro) were manually merged with created articles.
From July 13-17, 2009, over 2,400 articles on artificial satellites from the Soviet Kosmos program were created, and in August 2009 a further 7840 articles on deep-sky objects were added to the New General Catalog .
The Serbian-language Wikipedia logo for the 100,000 article (October 11, 2009)
The Serbian-language Wikipedia logo for the 150,000 article (November 20, 2011)
Web Fest 2009 Award in the category of best educational website in Serbia for sr.wikipedia.org
Milestones
- 1000 articles: July 2004
- 10,000 articles: March 24, 2005
- 50,000 items: August 22, 2007
- 100,000 items: November 20, 2009
- 200,000 items: July 6, 2013
- 300,000 items as of November 3, 2014
- 400,000 items: January 11, 2018
- 500,000 articles: January 14, 2018
- 600,000 articles: January 16, 2018
Web links
- Statistics in stats.wikimedia.org,
- Discriminacija Vikipedije na srpskom: Veliki DISBALANS ČLANAKA o muškarcima i ženama , novosti.rs, March 9, 2020 (article on gender inequality in the Serbian Wikipedia)
- Vikipedija na srpskom DRUGA U SVETU po pouzdanosti, a čak pet srpskih urednika se plasiralo u 10 najboljih . Rogen in: BLIC, February 6, 2020. (Article on the success of the Serbian Wikipedia in the One Librarian campaign , One Reference )
- DA ZNANJE BUDE DOSTUPNO SVIMA Vikipedija na srpskom jeziku slavi 15. rođendan . Tanjug in: BLIC, February 16, 2018. (Article on the 15th birthday of the Serbian Wikipedia)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Wikipedias , Wikimedia , Meta, accessed March 10, 2019
- ↑ Nikola Smolenski: Potpuna sloboda , Svet kompjutera 10/2003, archive version from January 16, 2018 (in Serbian)
- ↑ Wikimedia chapters / Reports / Wikimedia Serbia / Academy Board / February to April 2013 - Meta , Wikimedia
- ↑ Wikimedia chapters / Reports / Wikimedia Serbia / 2009 - Meta