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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
|---|---|
| Available in | Croatian |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | hr |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 16 February 2003 |
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 223,433 articles and a total of 7.06 million edits have been made. It has 321,130 registered users, out of which 480 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[update], there were about 135 editors making at least 5 edits a month.[3] Around 750 articles are ranked as selected (Croatian: Izabrani članci).[4]
In the period from 2013 to 2021, the Croatian Wikipedia was caught in the spotlight for promoting far-right ideas, 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]
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,[8][9] all of which were condemned by the Croatian government, media and historians.[10][11]
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 of Wikipedia which have yet to be addressed.[12][13][14]
- ^ "Glavna stranica". Wikipedia (in Croatian). Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
- ^ "Wikipedia Statistics Croatian". stats.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ "Wikistats - Statistics For Wikimedia Projects". stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ "Izabrani članci". Croatian Wikipedia (in Croatian). Wikimedia Foundation. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
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- "These Far-right Nationalists Didn't Like What They Read Online About World War II – So They Rewrote History". Haaretz. 4 August 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
A recent probe by the online encyclopedia Wikipedia reveals major historical revisionism by far-right forces in its Croatian and Serbian versions. But it also exposes the dangerous overlap between nationalism and disinformation online.
- "How Croatian Wikipedia Made a Concentration Camp Disappear". Balkan Insights. 26 March 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
Unlike Wikipedia in other languages, the Croatian version refers to the WWII Jasenovac concentration camp as a "collection camp" - as well as playing down fascist crimes and ignoring right-wingers' controversies.
- "These Far-right Nationalists Didn't Like What They Read Online About World War II – So They Rewrote History". Haaretz. 4 August 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
- ^ Grabowski, Jan; Klein, Shira (9 February 2023). "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust". The Journal of Holocaust Research: 133–190. doi:10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939. ISSN 2578-5648. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
[...] a group of committed Wikipedia editors have been promoting a skewed version of history [...] Wikipedia's articles on the Holocaust in Poland [...] insinuate that most Jews supported Communism and conspired with Communists to betray Poles (Żydokomuna or Judeo–Bolshevism), blame Jews for their own persecution, and inflate Jewish collaboration with the Nazis [...] It would also behoove the Wikimedia Foundation to look into the wide-scale distortion on the English Wikipedia, as it did recently in the case of the Croatian Wikipedia.
- ^ "The shocking truth about Wikipedia's Holocaust disinformation". The Forward. 14 June 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
To our dismay, we found dozens of examples of Holocaust distortion [...] advanced a Polish nationalist narrative [...] People who read these pages learned about [...] Jews supporting the communists to betray Poles. A handful of distortions have been corrected since our publication, but many remain [...] Wikimedia Foundation needs to intervene, as it has already done to stem disinformation in Chinese Wikipedia, Saudi Wikipedia and Croatian Wikipedia, with excellent results. It must do so in English Wikipedia as well.
|"Exposing the Holocaust Lies on the Dark Side of Wikipedia". Chapman University News. 17 November 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2024. - ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Krnić, Lovro. "Početak kraja Endehapedije". Portal Novosti. Retrieved 11 January 2024.