Croatian Wikipedia

Favicon of Wikipedia 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
RegistrationOptional
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 221,340 articles and a total of 6.98 million edits have been made. It has 316,286 registered users, out of which 471 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] Around 750 articles are ranked as featured (Croatian: Izabrani članci).[3]

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 the means of historical denialism and by negating or diluting the severity of crimes committed by the Ustaše regime. Apart from whitewashing the crimes and vices of World War II–era criminals, the same has been done for contemporary Croatian politicians and public figures; such falsified and biased content on Croatian Wikipedia has been supported through massive usage of unreliable sources,[4][5] all of which received negative reception from the Croatian government, media, and historians.[6][7] Several editors involved in co-opting Croatian Wikipedia throughout the 2010s were banned or demoted in 2021, when it was found that one of the most active administrators took control of the site by having about eighty sockpuppet accounts.[8][9][10]

  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. ^ "Izabrani članci". Croatian Wikipedia (in Croatian). Wikimedia Foundation. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
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  5. ^ "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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  9. ^ "Wikimedia bans admin of Wikipedia Croatia for pushing radical right agendas". therecord.media. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  10. ^ Krnić, Lovro. "Početak kraja Endehapedije". Portal Novosti. Retrieved 11 January 2024.