Bosnian Wikipedia

Community

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

Media coverage

Between 2021 and 2022, several Bosnian Wikipedia administrators were a target of accusations by several anonymous tabloid sources of promoting "Croatian nationalist political agenda". 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 of "eminent historians" 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 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.

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 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

References

1. (12 December 2002). "First article ''Matematika''.".
2. (17 February 2007). "First community meeting.".
3. "Follow up meetings.".
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.". [[Al Jazeera Balkans]].
5. (7 June 2021). "Kome smeta bosanska historija na Wikipediji?". [[klix.ba]].
6. (November 2022). "Izgubljena bitka za Bosnu na internetu: slučaj Wikipedija". [[:bs:Preporod (novine).
7. V. K.. (5 August 2021). "Brisanje sadržaja na bosanskom jeziku: Kako nacionalisti vrše reviziju historije na Wikipediji". klix.ba.