The Bosnian Wikipedia ( bs, Wikipedia na bosanskom jeziku) is the Bosnian language version of

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, hosted by the

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. As of , it has articles. It was created on December 12, 2002, and its first article was '' Matematika''.

Community

On February 17, 2007, members of the Bosnian wiki community held the first in-person meet-up event in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see names in other languages'') is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo ...

. Another meeting was held in the same year, followed by meetings in 2008 and 2011.

Media attention and controversies

Since 2021 onwards, administrators on the Bosnian Wikipedia have been a target of accusations by several anonymous tabloid sources of promoting "Croatian nationalist political agenda", like the one which has long been present on the

Croatian Wikipedia The Croatian Wikipedia ( hr, Wikipedija na hrvatskome jeziku) is the Croatian version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, started on February 16, 2003. This version has articles and a total of edits have been made (live count). It has regi ...

project. According to these reports, academics, professors and students from

with profession in the field of

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

and

politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that stud ...

allegedly faced selective reverting without explanations, negation of the

Bosnian national identity Bosnians (Bosnian language: / ; / , / ) are people identified with the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina or with the region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia. As a common demonym, the term ''Bosnians'' refers to all inhabitants/citizens of the cou ...

in favor of ethnic labels ( Bosniak,

Croat The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, Ge ...

Serb The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their na ...

) where inappropriate (i.e. Bosnian history predominantly portrayed as Croatian or Serbian), as well as discrediting eminent

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

s as reliable sources in articles (favoring unreliable web portals instead). 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. None of the authors of the accusatory news articles have interviewed or reached to the concerned Bosnian Wikipedia administrators, with latter refuting these accusations based on firm policies against original research and editorial synthesis.

Notes

* 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 Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia an ...

pluricentric language, making the practice of copying content between the four Wikipedias (

, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian) with none or minimal textual changes easy and common.

References

External links

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