About Wikipedia, part one

Wikipedia is a non-commercial project of Wikimedia Fondation. It is a language based project, and there are more than 700 projects made by volunteers, which spend their unpaid time to write and to make the whole "knowledge of the human race available for everyone, allover the world". The central part is maded by few projects like en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org, meta.wikimedia.org, commons.wikimedia.org...

For usual, the Wikimedia Fondation is owner of all projects and domains, no matter in which language they are written.

False!
There is a project above those rules, so called "Croatian Wikipedia", for real Wikipedia on Croatian language. If we forget the five pillars of wikipedia, this is the only project with "own" rules. The first step into the "country-owned" Wikipedia are national insignia on the main page. There is no other project (between more than 700!) having national insignia on the main page, but "Croatian Wikipedia" is not made for everyone who would like to contribute in that language as others, but for all Croats no matter if they can speak or write this language.

The specifications of this project are:
1. Use Croatian sources, even if they are wrong or political (pages without impressum or possibillity to contact owner, broken rule: neutral point of view)
2. If you want to contribute, don´t even try to use some words of familiar languages like Serbian or Bosnian, otherwise you will be blocked from editing for infinite (broken rule: assume good faith)
3. Dont even think about posting crtical view on a "Croatian" article or you will be called such names as proserbian, probosnian, nationalistic... (broken rule: assume good faith, no personal attack)
4. To get a sysop flag on "Croatian" Wikipedia, you need to join a group of "real leaders". This is just possible if you write hard core nationalistic articles. The second step is a invitation on the privat channel on IRC freenode server called #PGC. Once there, you will get all informations about "persons non grata" and will be informed about steps you should made to support the view of PGC community. Otherway, you can participiate in a Wikimedija Hrvatske, a not official chapter of Wikimedia Fondation, owned by three users and registered in Zagreb, Sokolska 31. a familiar house without office (after skipping captcha, insert Wikimedija Hrvatske and than klick on the blue number at left, for the adress, insert Sokolska 31. Zagreb on maps.google.com).

to be continued...

Nudity on Wikipedia

Some weeks ago, there was a discussion about pictures showing porn content on the Wikipedia. This was started by a online report from an american newspaper. After that, the founder of Wikipedia Jimbo Wales, has start a deleting action on commons.wikimedia.org and has remove few houndreds of pictures used for illustration in the article. This has been done without a community consensus and after that, the community acted with an petition and proposal for removing of founder rights on all projects. As result, Jimbo has made a "step backwards" and requested removing of those "technical rights" as he don´t need them anymore.

Remove founder flag
Petition to Jimbo

His action was against all rules of Wikipedia, his own dream and creation.

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