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Yaroslav Blanter

7 May 7 May

5:38 p.m.

New subject: [Wikimedia-l] Join “CEE Spring” on Wikipedia to help discover Ukraine to the world

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Wikipedias which I would normally expect to take the lead, the articles about Ukrainian localities still contain this outdated information.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.protsiuk(a)wikimedia.org.ua> wrote:

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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-… 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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Yaroslav Blanter

9 May 9 May

10:50 a.m.

New subject: [Wikimedia-l] Join “CEE Spring” on Wikipedia to help discover Ukraine to the world

Thanks Anton. Let us hope that it works. Best Yaroslav On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 5:56 PM Anton Protsiuk < anton.protsiuk(a)wikimedia.org.ua> wrote:

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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… 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 <ymbalt(a)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.protsiuk(a)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-… 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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Yaroslav Blanter

9 May 9 May

10:50 a.m.

New subject: [Wikimedia-l] Join “CEE Spring” on Wikipedia to help discover Ukraine to the world

Hi Ciell, thanks a lot. I am using this for the new districts (raions) https://www.minregion.gov.ua/press/news/novi-rajony-karty-sklad/ and this for hromadas (sub-district divisions) https://gromada.info/ru/region/%D0%94%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D… (this is just an example, one would need to use dropdown menu to go to other items). but unfortunately none of these is in English, and I am not aware of the English sources. Currently, on the English Wikipedia I have done Chernihiv, Cherkasi, Chernovtsi, and Ternopil Oblasts (4 out of 24), everything related to them should be up to date (I might have made typos, which is inevitable with this number of edits, but I hope I did not introduce serious errors). Currently I am doing Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. All pages on raions should be up to date, there is still some work to do, but at least they do not contain wrong information. I will be happy to answer any questions. It is probably easier onwiki, my username is Ymblanter. Best regards Yaroslav On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 9:52 PM Ciell Wikipedia <ciell.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi Yaroslav, Is there a (online) source for the new administrative divisions we can base our edits on? I'm sure several people across different languages on this list would like to help out with the updates. Vriendelijke groet, Ciell Op vr 7 mei 2021 om 17:38 schreef Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt(a)gmail.com>om>:

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.protsiuk(a)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-… 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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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