Croatian Wikipedia

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Croatian Wikipedia's Main Page on 17 January 2021
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inCroatian
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLhr.wikipedia.org Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialNo
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Launched16 February 2003; 21 years ago (2003-02-16)

The Croatian Wikipedia (Croatian: Wikipedija na hrvatskome jeziku) is the Croatian language version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, started on 16 February 2003.[1] This version has 222,651 articles and a total of 7.02 million edits have been made. It has 319,518 registered users, out of which 463 have been active in the last 30 days, and 14 administrators. Throughout 2014, fewer than two dozen editors made more than 100 edits a month; around 150 made more than 5 edits a month.[2] As of July 2024, there were about 135 editors making at least 5 edits a month.[3] Around 750 articles are ranked as featured (Croatian: Izabrani članci).[4]

In the period from 2013 to 2021, the Croatian Wikipedia received attention from international media for promoting a far-right worldview, including anti-LGBT propaganda and bias against Serbs of Croatia by Holocaust revisionism, particularly negating or whitewashing the atrocities of the Ustaše regime.[5][6][7][8]

Apart from whitewashing the atrocities of World War II war criminals, the same has been done for contemporary Croatian politicians and public figures. Such falsified content on Croatian Wikipedia has been backed up by a wide range of dubious sources,[9][10] all of which were condemned by the Croatian government, media and historians.[11][12]

Several editor accounts involved in those actions on Croatian Wikipedia throughout the 2010s were either banned or demoted in 2021, when it was found that one of the most active administrators took control of the site with 80 sockpuppet accounts. The process also exposed the systemic issues in the operation of Wikipedia, which have yet to be addressed.[13][14][15]

  1. ^ "Glavna stranica". Wikipedia (in Croatian). Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  2. ^ "Wikipedia Statistics Croatian". stats.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Wikistats - Statistics For Wikimedia Projects". stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Izabrani članci". Croatian Wikipedia (in Croatian). Wikimedia Foundation. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  5. ^ "A collage of lies: the Croatian right's Holocaust revisionism". The Jerusalem Post.
  6. ^ "Holocaust Revisionism in Croatia: How Anne Frank Became Persona Non Grata". Algemeiner.
  7. ^ "These Far-right Nationalists Didn't Like What They Read Online About World War II – So They Rewrote History". Haaretz.
  8. ^ "How Croatian Wikipedia Made a Concentration Camp Disappear". Balkan Insights.
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  10. ^ "Što nas Wikipedia uči o medijskoj pismenosti: Kako su pali Daily Mail, Breitbart i InfoWars". Faktograf.hr (in Croatian). 18 October 2018.
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  14. ^ "Wikimedia bans admin of Wikipedia Croatia for pushing radical right agendas". therecord.media. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  15. ^ Krnić, Lovro. "Početak kraja Endehapedije". Portal Novosti. Retrieved 11 January 2024.