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The DemocraTICon competition: first time with a Wikipedia discipline
This year's DemocraTICon (formerly the Media Olympic Games) has just finished its final round, which took place on March 26th and 27th, 2025 in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In the premises of the Innovation Centre of the Faculty of Technology of the Ostrava University. The students were tasked with tasks in selected competition categories (e.g. AI, creating a course in the Elbot application of the Elpida association, etc.). One of the disciplines was the Fixing Wikipedia article discipline. Students could try their hand at analysing and then improving a tagged article for urgent repair. The article Salty Tom (eventually deleted) was selected for the teams. Students from 14 high schools across the country got hands-on practice with Wikipedia rules and recommendations, as well as writing and editing entries. For this purpose, a webinar (on youtube) by the main lecturer and a member of the jury. The three winning teams will receive valuable prizes from Wikimedia CR. More information on the event's website.