Croatian Wikipedia/fr
Croatian Wikipedia (abbreviated hr-WP) is the Croatian-language version of Wikipedia.
Facts and statistics
Started: February 16, 2003
Founders: ???
Current size: 223 616 articles
Total edits: 7 065 348
Active editors: 478 in the past month
Coverage
Croatian Wikipedia is generally regarded by the rest of the Wikimedia Movement as having significant neutrality issues, resulting from the capture of the project by politically-motivated editors who have driven out or blocked others,[1], but also more elegantly supressed liberal content and hyper-presented conservative nationalist and catholic.[2][3] Gizmodo describes its bias as "promoting fascism, whitewashing World War II concentration camps, as well as anti-Serbian and anti-LGBT propaganda".[4]
As of start of 2021, the situation is slowly improving, though it is still periodically mentioned in the media as a bad example.[5]
Areas of strength
- Croatia and Croatians-related content, but also
- Coverage of Christian and especially Catholic content
- Coverage of football/soccer (and somewhat other sports) up to very low level leagues and players
Areas of weakness
- Controversial political and historic topics, but also
- Lack of diversity among contributors
- Lack of updates on many pages from first decade and lack of criteria and regulations for many topics
- Lack of coverage of modern and contemporary culture, civil society, women, as well as minorities and human rights[6]
Operation
Challenges
- Achieving neutrality on charged political topics
- Preventing administrator abuse
Competitors
- Translations of English Wikipedia
History and impact
Milestones/events
- 2013: Significant media attention and cultural debate in Croatia about the project's bias issues, and subsequent Meta RfC
- 2020: Global ban proposal of hr-WP admin Kubura
- 2021: 3 most problematic admins removed by community in March (Roberta F. remained admin on sister projects). The WMF comissioned and, a few months later, published the Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment, conducted by an anonymous academic researcher. Findings confirmed historic revisionism and problematic content bias.
Prominent Wikipedians
- Denny – first admin and bureaucrat; co-founder of Wikidata
- Kubura, SpeedyGonsales, Roberta F. and Zeljko – controversial ex-admins
Références
- ↑ A Teen Threw Scots Wiki Into Chaos and It Highlights a Massive Problem With Wikipedia
- ↑ WikiOna: Kako se 50-ak žena uhvatilo uređivanja hrvatske Wikipedije (i zašto) (in Croatian)
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Roda/Editing_for_Women%27s_Health/Report
- ↑ The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia by GregorB in The Signpost
- ↑ Climate change: Conspiracy theories found on foreign-language Wikipedia
- ↑ Wikimedijima za ljudska prava (in Croatian)