Dear Community Members, We are pleased to announce that the WikiRefine 15-day article improvement campaign starts today, November 7, 2026. Running through November 21, 2026, this online campaign focuses on improving the quality of existing articles across our participating language Wikipedias. For this campaign, lists based on the 100 most-read articles from the last five years have been prepared for each participating language community. Contributions will focus on key content development areas, including references and citations, article structure, readability, images and media, and internal links. As today falls on a long weekend, please feel free to start slowly and ease into your editing. If the community needs more time to work on these articles, we can extend the campaign timeline upon request. We will be using the WikiEval tool (https://wikieval.toolforge.org/) to track improvements and assess overall article quality throughout the campaign. As a reminder, WikiRefine also serves as a preparatory activity for a follow-up in-person event, where the top two participants from each community will be selected based on their contributions. To get started, please check out the following resources:
* Link to WikiRefine Project Page<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IIITH-OKI/Edit-a-thon/WikiRefine> * Link to List of Articles<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IIITH-OKI/Edit-a-thon/WikiRefine/List_of_Articles> * Link to WikiEval Tool<https://wikieval.toolforge.org/> * Link to Community Sign-up Page<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IIITH-OKI/Edit-a-thon/WikiRefine/Community_Sign-up> We look forward to your active participation and working together to enhance the quality of knowledge in our languages. Regards, Nitesh (OKI ________________________________ From: Nitesh Sent: 04 November 2026 22:16 To: Jinoy Tom Jacob via WikimediaIndia-l <[email protected]> Cc: Open Knowledge Initiatives <[email protected]> Subject: Invitation to Participate in WikiRefine: A 15-Day Article Improvement Campaign Dear all, I hope you are doing well. The Open Knowledge Initiatives (OKI) team is pleased to announce WikiRefine<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IIITH-OKI/Edit-a-thon/WikiRefine>, a 15-day article improvement campaign taking place from 7 to 21 November 2026. We invite community members from all participating language communities to take part. WikiRefine aims to encourage editors to improve the overall quality of Wikipedia articles, going beyond article creation and focusing on areas such as references, structure, readability, images, internal links and other aspects of content development. For this campaign, we have prepared lists based on the 100 most-read articles from the last five years for the participating language Wikipedias. You can find the article lists and other campaign information here<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IIITH-OKI/Edit-a-thon/WikiRefine/List_of_Articles>. We will be using the WikiEval tool<https://wikieval.toolforge.org/>, recently developed to support the Wikimedia community in evaluating Wikipedia content during campaigns. The tool will help assess article quality and track improvements made throughout WikiRefine. What happens after the campaign? WikiRefine will also serve as a preparatory activity for a follow-up in-person event focused on qualitative improvements to local-language Wikipedias. We aim to bring together the top two participants from each participating community. Their contributions will be assessed by a jury of experienced Wikimedians with knowledge of the respective languages, based on the quality of their work during the campaign. We encourage communities to identify up to three organisers for the campaign, ensuring diversity in gender and representation of both new and experienced Wikimedians. Jury members, on the other hand, should be experienced contributors with a good understanding of their respective language Wikipedias. (Community Sign-up<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IIITH-OKI/Edit-a-thon/WikiRefine/Community_Sign-up>) We look forward to your participation and to working together towards improving the quality of knowledge available in our languages. Note: A few language Wikipedia article lists have not yet been added to the dedicated page due to a technical issue with the tool. We are working to resolve this and aim to add them before the campaign begins. Regards, Nitesh Open Knowledge Initiatives (OKI)
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