Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month: three different years

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Let's get acquainted!

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Among many hats I wear, one of the most challenging but one of the most interesting was position of employee at…

And this is going to be a tale about the biggest international editing contest we have organized

that changed the world!

It all started in 2021

The idea of Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month is to accumulate and distribute information about the culture and famous people of Ukraine in as many language editions of Wikipedia as possible

Over 800 Wikipedia articles were created and improved in 44 language editions, as well as roughly 700 Wikidata items.

More than 170 participants joined from all over the world.

2022: year of ambivalence

P.S. Ambivalence is a state of having simultaneous conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings towards some object. (English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

The second edition of the campaign was set to run from 17 February until 17 March

Author: Ата, Wikipedia screenshot and logo CC BY-SA 3.0, Map “War in Ukraine (2022)” by Homoatrox, CC0 1.0

2023: filling the gaps and small wiki support

Author: Dody Ismoyo, CC BY-SA 4.0

Big numbers in a span of three years

6014

articles created

language editions

thats 27% of all Wikipedias!

89

“I just wanted to show the solidarity for brave Ukrainian citizens fighting for their autonomy, although I know our Wikipedia activities are powerless... tyrants, however, have been always afraid of the pen.”

User:さえぼー

Thanks and take care!