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Serbia[edit]

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Serbia official language is Serbian. The Latin alphabet was designed by Croatian linguist Ljudevit Gaj in 1830 and is used by the other standard forms of Serbo-Croatian. The dialect serving as the basis for the main literary and standard language is Shtokavian, which is also the basis of standard Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. The other principal dialect, Torlakian, is spoken in southeast Serbia, though it is disputed whether it is Serbo-Croatian or transitional to Macedonian and Bulgarian.

Wikimedia Serbia is the country's national chapter.[1] There is one woman serving on the board of the chapter.

Wikipedia

Serbian language Wikipedia rank 35 out of 280 languages Wikipedia, with 12.9 million page view per month. In December 2011, there are 47 very active users (more than 100 edits per month) and 257 active users (five edits per month).[2] In December 2011, there were 9,540 people and 5,380 women of all ages from Serbia who were interested in Wikipedia.[3]

Volunteer projects, popularity, readership, and contribution

In December 2011, according to Alexa, Wikinews was ranked the 3,170th most popular site in the country.[4]

Serbian women perspective to free knowledge
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Women in Serbia
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The Foundation

In 2011 The Foundation granted Wikimedia Serbia USD 8,800 for two projects: capacity building and GLAM. During the 2011 Summer of Research, the WMF hired eight research fellows. Of these, only one was female, and she was from the United States. There were four males from American universities, The other researchers included men from a Japanese university, a Swiss university and a Canadian university. There were no research fellows, male or female, from this country. During the December 2011 fundraising appeal, no Serbians, men or women, were featured are part of the appeal.