Thanks Anton. Let us hope that it works. Best Yaroslav
On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 5:56 PM Anton Protsiuk < anton.prots...@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote: > Thanks for your work, Yaroslav! > > Although this challenge is obviously not focused on the specific problem > you mentioned, we do pay attention to improving articles in general. For > example, as noted in the announcement, we have prepared the list of most > important stubs for each CEE language edition: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2021/Structure/Ukraine/Stubs > > The contest in general is also not focused only on creating new articles, > though specifics might depend on each language edition. For example, in the > Ukrainian-language edition of the contest, which ran throughout April, we > were trying to incentivize improvement of existing articles in various > ways; we'll try to share lessons learned with the international community > once the results are ready. > > Best Regards > Anton Protsiuk > Program Coordinator at Wikimedia Ukraine > > > On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 6:39 PM Yaroslav Blanter <ymb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Not to undermine an importance of creation of new articles, but to note >> that after the reform of the administrative divisions of Ukraine in July >> 2020 dozens, if not hundreds of thousands of articles across many projects >> now contain wrong information (well, not up-to-date information). In the >> English Wikipedia, I was correcting it pretty much single-handedly since >> the last year, and I will probably finish correcting it by the end of this >> year (though occasionally I see people reverting me saying "information is >> redundant" or smth similar). I see that on all other projects, including >> Ukrainian and Russian Wikipedias which I would normally expect to take the >> lead, the articles about Ukrainian localities still contain this outdated >> information. I do not really expect to be acknowledged for this (looks like >> almost nobody cares), but a bit of attention to already existing articles >> would probably not harm. >> >> Best >> Yaroslav >> >> On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 4:16 PM Anton Protsiuk < >> anton.prots...@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone! >>> >>> By the end of May, we at Wikimedia Ukraine invite everyone to join CEE >>> Spring (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2021) to >>> help discover Ukraine to the world. >>> >>> The contest is devoted to improving Wikipedia content about Central and >>> Eastern Europe across multiple languages; the Central & Eastern European >>> community of Wikimedians has organized it every year since 2015. >>> >>> Of course, you can write about many different CEE countries and regions >>> within the contest, but we at Wikimedia Ukraine are planning to send >>> special souvenirs for most active contributors to articles about Ukraine >>> specifically ;) >>> >>> For the first time, we prepared the top-10 most important articles about >>> Ukraine that are missing (red links) for each CEE Wikipedia ( >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=11313069) and the top-10 important >>> articles that are too short for each CEE Wikipedia ( >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=11313068). >>> >>> And we also have the general top-100 list with important topics missing >>> in many Wikipedias: https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10583331 >>> >>> You can read the full announcement (and share it to help us spread the >>> world) here: >>> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/05/06/join-cee-spring-on-wikipedia-to-help-discover-ukraine-to-the-world/ >>> >>> Best Regards >>> Anton Protsiuk >>> Program Coordinator at Wikimedia Ukraine >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >
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