RATOVI SJEĆANJA: BOJNO POLJE WIKIPEDIJA
WARS OF MEMORY: THE BATTLEFIELD OF WIKIPEDIA
Author(s): Mirza DžananovićSubject(s): Media studies, Political history, South Slavic Languages, Nationalism Studies, Politics of History/Memory, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Zenici
Keywords: Wikipedia; memory wars; history; Bosnian language; Wikimedia Foundation;
Summary/Abstract: The paper points out certain problems that arose when filling in the content of the world-famous online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Namely, variants of Wikipedia in South Slavic languages served various groups, primarily with far right orientation, to promote attitudes and interpretations of past events of peoples and states from the former Yugoslavia that are not in line with norms and standards of Wikipedia. The controversial narratives also attracted the attention of the Wikimedia Foundation, which hired an external expert who analyzed content on the Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Serbo-Croatian versions of Wikipedia and proposed a series of measures to clarify the situation.
Journal: saZnanje
- Issue Year: 3/2022
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 446-453
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Bosnian