Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Bosnian Wiktionary
This is a proposal for closing and/or deleting a wiki hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is subject to the current closing projects policy.
The proposal for closing wikt:bs: is accepted and the proposed actions should be taken.
- A Language Committee member provided the following comment: This uncontroversial proposal has been approved. --MF-W 21:52, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Type: 1 (routine proposal)
- Proposed outcome: closure
- Proposed action regarding the content: none (already transferred to the Serbo-Croatian Wiktionary)
- Notice on the project: diff
- Informed Group(s): Bosnian Wikipedians (diff)
Proposal
[edit]Following the local community's decision to merge the Bosnian Wiktionary into the Serbo-Croatian one and subsequent consultations with MF-Warburg, a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee, I'm initiating this project closure proposal.
During the local discussion, KWiki and Srđan, two administrators of the Bosnian Wiktionary, highlighted the inactivity and lack of maintenance of the project, as well as the lack of an editorial base. It was noted that merging with a macrolanguage project would make sense.
In coordination with the local community and based on the MF-Warburg's recommendations, all relevant articles, templates, categories, and project pages from the Bosnian Wiktionary have been imported successfully into the Serbo-Croatian project. In the aftermath of this move, the Bosnian Wiktionary was emptied, and the final maintenance of the project was completed.
This Type 1 closure request (due to the absence of significant content) is submitted with the intention of ratifying the steps already taken by the community. All colleagues are welcome to provide their feedback and comments.
Thank you in advance, Aca (talk) 19:21, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]- Support. This is a slightly unusual proposal - most type 1 proposals involve an outside person observing that the wiki is functionally dead. Here, on the other hand, the community has already voluntarily amalgamated with another wiki. Since there is no content and no community on this wiki anymore, there is no point keeping it open. This, that and the other (talk) 11:35, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
- Indeed, good remark :). Thank you for your comment. – Aca (talk) 17:36, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
- Comment The following listing covers all of the previous and current proposals for closing B. wikiprojects:
- Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Bosnian Wikinews (2010, closed as rejected)
- Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Bosnian Wikinews - 2nd proposal (2011, closed as rejected)
- Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Bosnian Wikibooks (2015, closed as rejected)
- Bosnian Wikinews – No. 3 (2020, closed as approved/aka a soft-closure):
[[Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Bosnian Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote and Wikisource]]→ Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Bosnian Wikibooks, Wikiquote and Wikisource (2025, still open)
- --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 16:32, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
- I think I linked all of these in another ongoing proposal. Nevertheless, thank you for this list here. :) – Aca (talk) 17:40, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
- Comment Hm, perhaps, dunno. --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 17:11, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
- I think I linked all of these in another ongoing proposal. Nevertheless, thank you for this list here. :) – Aca (talk) 17:40, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
- + Support Conditional support: If and only if the local B. Wikimedia community has explicitly expressed such a desire, although I'd like too see more of the *native* B. editors confirm their previous local decisions and/or make their final ones here on Meta-Wiki. --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 16:50, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
- + Comment Of course, now I'd Strong support that for all of the B. Wikimedia projects. --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 15:16, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
- Strong support. This and other similar projects (Wikibooks, Wikiquote, etc.) have seen little to no activity for years and lack the community needed for meaningful development. Keeping them open only fragments efforts and misrepresents the state of the Wikimedia movement. Given the linguistic closeness of ex-Yugoslav communities, similar underused projects across the region should be considered for unification. One well-maintained version per project type (e.g. a shared Wiktionary) could foster collaboration, improve quality, and ensure sustainability. ✪ Z1KA 20:17, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Support Per Special:Diff/28810527. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 08:35, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Strong support. --Fenikals (talk) 12:04, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
- Support per This, that and the other. //shb (t • c) 10:02, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- Support per This, that and the other. --dringsim 14:36, 16 August 2025 (UTC)
- Support There is only one page (the main page). --Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 07:22, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Support no pages not needed Breck0530 (talk) 15:36, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- Support: This wiki is gone already + community consensus supports this too. Kxeon (talk) 22:59, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
- Support Make it a redirect to sh.wiktionary. AtUkr(talk to me) 20:24, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
- Support per all of the above. I'm surprised the discussion is still open after over 6 months. MedK1 (talk) 18:18, 21 December 2025 (UTC)
- Support. Just wondering how many true "bosnicisms" would be lost in progress. Balamax (talk) 09:39, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Balamax: none, this type of project allows absolutely any Serbo-Croatian word to have an entry, and this includes everything Bosnian. – Vipz (talk) 23:53, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
- @Vipz Hope this abstract rare Bosnian word won't get vaguely tagged as regionalizam? Balamax (talk) 18:25, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Balamax: none, this type of project allows absolutely any Serbo-Croatian word to have an entry, and this includes everything Bosnian. – Vipz (talk) 23:53, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
- Support, I think that if it was redirected then that would be best. Archiving it would make it so readers of Bosnian Wikitionary would be less likely to find the better quality entries which result from volunteers working on Serbo-croatian Wikitionary. Also, language can be very politicized, especially in post-Yugoslav states, and Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment-2021 can be interpreted to support a unification of all Serbo-croat Wikiprojects. EasternShah (talk) 23:21, 21 May 2026 (UTC)
- Support Linh Huynh (talk) 02:17, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
- Support I'm glad to see this kind of development unfolding before my very eyes and I hope it will pave the way for further cooperation between the two communities. – Vipz (talk) 23:58, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
Support. I wonder why there are only 4 pages on Bosnian Wiktionary... and they are only articles that has only 1-2 sentences! 配合比全额更好(说说而已) (talk) 05:05, 24 June 2026 (UTC)- Its now 1. Versions111 (talk) 10:03, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
- Strong support per above. JHD0919 (talk) 10:55, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support Do you wanna go deleting the page? I mean? ~2026-39429-98 (talk) 16:49, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
- Strong support. Yeah, let's do it right now! 配合比全额更好(说说而已) (talk) 09:31, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
- @配合比全额更好 You have voted twice. Linh Huynh (talk) 09:55, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
- Should be fixed now. – Aca (talk) 10:19, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
- @配合比全额更好 You have voted twice. Linh Huynh (talk) 09:55, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support per nominator. Versions111 (talk) 14:18, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
- Also, it only has 1 terms. Versions111 (talk) 10:03, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
- Comment Aca This project (Bosnian Wiktionary) only one entries (see wikt:bs:Максим). Should they be deleted? Linh Huynh (talk) 09:59, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Hiyuune: Thanks for the notice. I was actually looking into this a few days ago, and there are two pages: ljudski and Максим. They can be deleted now (one is off-scope and one is a duplicate). – Aca (talk) 10:12, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
- Should be done now. – Aca (talk) 10:32, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
- User:Aca: the proposal has now been approved. Can you replace the wiki's Main Page with an appropriate notice that directs users to shwiktionary? And are there any other steps that you think should be done before requesting the technical closure of the wiki? --MF-W 21:52, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Too exhausted at the moment. Will deal with this tomorrow. – Aca (talk) 22:25, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Main page and sitenotice changed. Will check if there's anything left. – Aca (talk) 13:14, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
- @MF-Warburg: Everything is ready now. You can proceed. – Aca (talk) 21:28, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
- Main page and sitenotice changed. Will check if there's anything left. – Aca (talk) 13:14, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
- Too exhausted at the moment. Will deal with this tomorrow. – Aca (talk) 22:25, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- User:Aca: the proposal has now been approved. Can you replace the wiki's Main Page with an appropriate notice that directs users to shwiktionary? And are there any other steps that you think should be done before requesting the technical closure of the wiki? --MF-W 21:52, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Should be done now. – Aca (talk) 10:32, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Hiyuune: Thanks for the notice. I was actually looking into this a few days ago, and there are two pages: ljudski and Максим. They can be deleted now (one is off-scope and one is a duplicate). – Aca (talk) 10:12, 17 July 2026 (UTC)