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Wikimedia Ukraine’s mid-year update in 8 figures

By: Anton Protsiuk

As we are halfway into 2024, let’s look back at Wikimedia Ukraine’s activities from January to June. Here’s a brief glimpse of our work – just a snapshot, not the full story – in eight figures.

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15 years of Wikimedia Ukraine! In May we've celebrated Wikimedia Ukraine's 15-year anniversary. Read this article on Diff for a list of some of our achievements over the years – and to hear from people who’ve made this possible.
47 events held for Ukrainian Wikipedia birthday in January and February. Every year we use Ukrainian Wikipedia’s birthdays an opportunity to organize Wikimarathon, a campaign that aims to recruit as many new volunteers as possible with an online marathon and a series of offline events. This year we had 36 events in Ukraine and 11 in other European countries, which gathered 900+ participants. (Read more on Diff).
1685 articles about Ukraine in 66 languages created and improved within the annual Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month, which we held in March in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ukrainian Institute.
700 educators passed a course about Wikipedia. In February we published a course on Wikipedia for Ukrainian educators on Prometheus, Ukraine’s biggest MOOC platform. For now, over 1600 people enrolled in the course, and over 700 educators finished it and received certificates. (Read more on Diff).
1300 articles on Ukrainian Wikipedia were created & improved across 3 campaigns for librarians. Throughout the spring of 2024, Wikimedia Ukraine has supported three campaigns on Wikipedia & Wikimedia projects aimed at librarians: #1Lib1Ref, #EveryBookItsReader, and “Cultural heritage and prominent figures”. (Read more in the GLAM newsletter).
15 people graduated from the first online course for Wikipedia trainers. In December and January Wikimedia Ukraine held our first-ever online course for Wikipedia trainers. 21 people joined and 15 successfully graduated. (Read more on Diff).
We developed 8 new video tutorials about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. Brief guides (3 to 7 minutes each) include topics like introduction to Wikidata, Wikipedia notability guidelines, and an explainer on whether you can trust Wikipedia. (Tutorials on Commons, in Ukrainian; a Diff post on learnings to come).
Last but definitely not least – we gave out 31 condensed milk awards for most active Wikipedia contributors from January to May. (Read more about the program on Diff + watch a Wikimania lightning talk).