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Re:The curious case of Croatian wikipedia by senko on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:16PM (#21738012)
For those outside Croatia, the drama perfectly reflects the politics of the country. You have the left and right still bickering over WWII events and shaping the "conversation", while the moderate majority is apathetic about the whole thing ("don't use hr wikipedia" in this case, "emigrate" in real life).

Politics is getting extremely polarized in a lot of the western world. In Croatia, we never had non-polarized politics.

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Re:The curious case of Croatian wikipedia by pyuser583 on Sunday December 08, 2019 @11:36PM (#21740419)
This makes me feel weird about the problem. It’s one thing when a very small minority takes control of an open projects. But when it’s simply a reflection of larger social dysfunction ... what then?

You can’t expect an open project to be healthier than the culture that fosters it.

You either restrict it, shut it down, or live with the dysfunction. Or, if you have the time and resource, create tons of red tape and the illusion of openness (i.e. Reddit).

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