Wikimedia CEE Spring 2025/Organizing
Tasks
[edit ]Participants
[edit ]During the editing contest, participants are expected to:
- create new articles and improve existing ones; as inspiration for writing new articles, article lists exist for every CEE community that mostly have English Wikipedia entries that can be used as a template
- add credible external links to articles; and
- add images to articles to make them more vivid.
Sub-contests
[edit ]You can take a part on a different sub-contests that usually are held during the CEE Spring anytime besides your community take a part into the contest. To do so, you need to add your user name and contributions on the separate Meta pages. In 2025, there are three separate sub-contests:
Local coordinators
[edit ]Prior to the editing contest, local coordinators have to prepare the following:
- create separate project pages for CEE Spring and their separate editing contest on their home wiki;
- discuss the rules of the contest with their community and afterwards publish this on the main page for CEE Spring (Rules);
- define a list of around 100 articles about their country, region or language, which can be distributed in ten per possible categories (such as Geography, History, Economics, Agriculture, Science, Society, etc.). Article lists can be provided directly from the local coordinator or through a discussion page on the respective home wikis with the help from the respective communities, especially when the content of the article list is disputed;
- inform the community and active editors about upcoming CEE Spring on their home wiki; and
- Optional: organize a jury from other volunteers in the movement, who will not take part in the contest. Examples for various rules for local contests can be found here (Rules).
During the editing contest, local coordinators are asked to:
- make sure that all participating articles on their own wiki have the CEE Spring template (Template:CEE Spring 2025 ) with parameters for username, topic and country, which is needed to acquire proper statistics about the local contest; and
- promote the contest and give additional information about the contest through sitenotice, social media, blogs, or other ways.
Support staff
[edit ]Staff members of affiliates or projects that are supporting the international project team in managing the project this year:
- Grant handling and prize funds
- Project planning and communication
General Timeline
[edit ]- 21 March – 31 May: Article Contest
- 1 June – 31 July: Determination of the results and local prize ceremonies (if applicable)
- July - October: Evaluation of the results, discussions at the CEE Meeting in September
Timeline of communities and topics by week
[edit ]Consider to pick up weekly suggested countries/regions/communities
or delve into the topic of the week! You do not have to pick an article from the community's article list, you can also choose a different article to write about.
Timeline
[edit ]Week by week
[edit ]| Week #
(неделя No) |
Days
(дни) |
Communities
(сообщества) |
Themes
(темы) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 21 March – 27 March | Serbia, Tatarstan | Culture |
| Week 2 | 28 March – 3 April | Armenia, Chuvashia | History |
| Week 3 | 4 April – 10 April | Greece, | Geography, Food, International Roma Day 2025 |
| Week 4 | 11 April – 17 April | Latvia, | Science, Human rights |
| Week 5 | 18 April – 24 April | Slovakia, Malta | Education, society |
| Week 6 | 25 April – 1 May | Slovenia, Bashkortostan | Women, Culture |
| Week 7 | 2 May – 8 May | Austria, Crimean Tatar | International Relations, Music |
| Week 8 | 9 May - 15 May | Romania, | Economy, Architecture |
| Week 9 | 16 May – 22 May | Poland | Youth, Culture |
| Week 10 | 23 May – 31 May | Russia, | Traditions, Food |
This timeline is a subject to change depending on which communities are participating in CEE Spring.