Wiki Loves Film

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Wiki Loves Film is a Central European challenge dedicated to films, cinema, filmmakers of different professions. The challenge is aimed at improving and updating existing articles, creating new articles, uploading photos and videos related to films, film culture, history and practice. The initiative rose in the Czech Republic in 2024 spread across the CEE region including Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, North Macedonia or Armenia. 2026 edition will take place from July 1st to September 30th, 2026.

Czech Articles Polish Articles Romanian Articles Slovak Articles

About

The aim of the call is to engage Wikipedians and Wikimedians in CEE region to focus on film and cinema during July, August and September 2026. It also aims to call relevant organisations and institutions such as archives, museums, trusts, industry organisations, film and audiovisual festivals to identify opportunities for presentation on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Activities include workshops, training, editathons.

The Wiki Loves Film initiative belongs to the WikiProject Films on the Czech Wikipedia, which brings together active Wikipedians and Wikimedians interested in film. The culmination of the continuous initiative is a summer challenge, which runs from July 1st to September 30th, 2026. During the challenge, the aim is to cover summer film festivals in the Czech Republic (the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Summer Film School in Uherské Hradiště), Poland (Nowe Horyzonty Wroclaw), Slovakia (4 Elements) and other countries. However, anyone can participate in the call!

Wiki Loves Film is supported by Wikimedia CEE Hub. Thanks!

How to participate?

To join the 2026 challenge and stay informed about all activities, register on the event page!

If you want to be informed about any activities, which are part of the Wiki Loves Film community, please fill this online form. We will reach out to you soon!

Continuous

editing of the existing articles in various languages during July 1st, 2026 – September 30th 2026 (using hashtag #wikifilm)
new articles from the list of proposed articles list (using hashtag #wikifilm). Any articles about films, filmmakers, TV series, history of cinema etc. will be part of the competition, not only from the CEE countries!
uploading photos from/of filmmakers, producers, institutions (such as archives, etc.)
uploading videos of any kind related to film

Czech Film Festivals

Festival	Location	Date	Website	Planned work	Wikimedians attending
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival	Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic	July 3rd–11th, 2026	en	photoshoot during the event industry and professionals events (individual consultation, photo uploads, individual events) students edit-a-thon (film studies or FAMU students, other film schools)	janbery
Summer Film School Uherské Hradiště	Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic	July 24th–30th, 2026	en	photoshoot during the event info booth during the event in the park	janbery, Pavel Bednařík (WMCZ)

Other Film Festivals

If you are visiting any of these (or other) festival in CEE region, please add these festival in the spreadsheet above including your user name.

New Horizons Film Festival (Poland, July 23rd – August 2nd, 2026)
Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 14th–21st, 2026)
Motovun Film Festival (Croatia, July 21st–26th, 2026)
Manaki Brothers Film Festival (North Macedonia, September 19th–25th, 2026)
Makedox Film Festival (North Macedonia, August 20th–27th, 2026)

Events

CEE Region online editathon – August 2026, 4PM–8PM via Zoom – Register here
cinema walk through Prague Cinemas – August 2026, 5:00PM, Edison Filmhub, Prague
screening of a new film Lumiére, The adventure continues – August 2026, 7:30PM, Edison Filmhub, Prague
24/7 Wiki Loves Film editathon in Macedonia, August 2026 (link)

Competition

Call Wiki Loves Film is running from July 1st to September 30th, 2026.
Main organiser of this challenge is Wikimedia Czech Republic, in participation Wikimedia CEE Hub and Wikimedia Polska.
Scope of this challenge is CEE region, participants eligible from following countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Hungary, Armenia, Malta.
Participants take part in this challenge and competition using hashtag #wikifilm. Participants can upload also photos, videos, audio or pdf files to Wikimedia Commons using a specific category. List of proposed articles is avalible here.
3 participants will be awarded non-monetary awards using a lottery system. Special jury will award the global top 5 pages using wikirank tool.
Rules of the competition are published on special site.