Crnogorska Enciklopedija
Encyclopedia
Crnogorska Enciklopedija (Montenegrin Encyclopedia; formerly Montenegrowiki) was an internet encyclopedia project
Internet encyclopedia project
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 written in Montenegrin language
Montenegrin language
Montenegrin is a name used for the Serbo-Croatian language as spoken by Montenegrins; it also refers to an incipient standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian used as the official language of Montenegro...

, which had existed from 2006 to 2008. It was started by the IT Association of Montenegro in 2006 as an experimental project. Its goal is to provide a base for a future Montenegrin Wikipedia
Wikipedia
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. It has announced that 2008 will be the "year of development" of the project, however as of late 2008, it is nonfunctional. It used the MediaWiki
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites...

 software, running at version 1.6.8, and contains no advertisements.

By 9 January 2008, Crnogorska Enciklopedija had had just over 1,000 articles. Like Wikipedia, the articles are released under the GNU Free Documentation License
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.

Its authors and webmasters are Darko Bulatović (User:WikiSysop) and Damir Mustafić (User:OutLook)

According to Darko Bulatović in an interview for the Montenegrin daily newspaper, Vijesti
Vijesti
Vijesti is a Montenegrin daily newspaper.The paper is published and managed by an entity called Daily Press d.o.o. - a limited liability company based in Podgorica...

, the wiki-encyclopedia has been a victim of wiki-hacking, having been attacked by users from Serbia.

In a statement made by Darko Bulatović, the wiki will be moving to newer servers within the year and will be updating MediaWiki software on the wiki as well.

As of late 2008, the project is closed.

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