Wiki Loves Sport 2025

Welcome to the Wikimedia contest Wiki Loves Sport 2025

the seventh edition of the Wikimedia campaign to write or improve sport-related articles
21 July - 21 September

What?

Wiki Loves Sport is a campaign ideated and organized by WikiDonne User Group since 2019 as part of WikiDonne Roadmap selected as one of the 11 individual or affiliate's projects granted by WMF in 2018.

The seventh edition of Wiki Loves Sport is organized to improve and extend content related to diversity in sport in the Wikimedia projects in general, and for the events it covers in particular. Given the gaps which is our topic of interest, the campaign is mainly focused on content concerning missing or underrepresented groups (women and para athelets), but as Wikimedians, we appreciate any sports-related content you want to add. Wikimedians in any language of the Wikimedia projects are invited to participate.

Rules

To participate, you must be a registered user on one of the Wikimedia platforms. Please follow these steps;
To be considered valid, the articles created must contain at least 3,000 bytes and be created or improved between 21 July and 21 September, 2025. If the article exists in another language, you can also choose to translate it (see how to translate a Wikipedia article);
All the articles should meet the content criteria for Wikipedia: notability, reliable sources, respect for copyright. More details on the dedicated page.

Seeing the affiliate's goal of increasing the diversity, whoever writes +5 articles about female athletes or female & male para-athletes, will also receive a barnstar and a digital certificate from the main organizer.

Events

2025 Women's T20 Blast (cricket), 30 May - 27 July, London
EuroBasket Women 2025 18 - 29 June (Czechia, Germany, Italy, Greece);
2025 Wimbledon Championships 30 June - 13 July;
2025 World Aquatics Championships 11 July - 3 August (Singapore)^[1]:
- Water polo 11-24 July
- Long distance 15-20 July
- Artistic swimming 18-25 July
- High diving 25-27 July
- Diving 26 July-3 August
- Lane swimming 27 July-3 August.
Copa América Femenina 2025 (football), 12 July – 2 August (Ecuador)
2025 Women's Pan American Cup (field hockey), 24 July – 3 August (Uruguay)
Tour de France Femmes 2025 (cycling), 26 July – 3 August (France)
2025 Women's British Open (golf), 31 July – 3 August (Wales)
2025 UEFA Women's Championship 2 - 27 July (Switzerland);
2025 Women's Volleyball World Championship 22 August – 7 September (Thailand)
2025 Women's Rugby World Cup 22 August - 27 September (England)^[2];
2025 US Open 25 August - 7 September;
2025 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships 28 - 31 August (Belgium);
2025 World Athletics Championships 13 - 21 September (Japan)^[3];
2025 Men's Volleyball World Championship 12 – 28 September (Philippines).
2025 IFSC Climbing World Championships 21 – 28 September (Korea).

Host stadiums for 2025 Women's European Basketball Championship

Peace and Friendship Stadium (Piraeus, Greece) Capacity: 11,640	PalaDozza (Bologna, Italy) Capacity: 5,570

Edel-optics.de Arena (Hamburg, Germany) Capacity: 3,400	Sportovní hala Vodova (Brno, Czech Rep.) Capacity: 3,000

Host stadiums for 2025 UEFA Women's Championship in Switzerland

Basel	Bern	Geneva	Zurich
St. Jakob-Park Capacity: 35,689	Stadion Wankdorf Capacity: 31,783	Stade de Genève Capacity: 30,084	Stadion Letzigrund Capacity: 24,186

St. Gallen	Lucerne	Sion, Switzerland	Thun
Arena St.Gallen Capacity: 18,251	Swissporarena Capacity: 16,496	Stade de Tourbillon Capacity: 14,283	Arena Thun Capacity: 10,187

When?

The writing contest runs from 21 July 00:01 to 21 September 23:59 (UTC).

Where?

The contest will be essentially held online. Other activities (mainly the local ones or on other Wikimedia project like Wikibooks) can be carried out in person.

Who?

Wikimedians already registered who edit in any Wikimedia project language.

Local projects

Add the link to your local page

Projects in Italian: Italian Wikipedia;
Projects in Serbian: Serbian Wikipedia;
Projects in Uzbek: Uzbek Wikipedia

Why?

Wikimedia and Wikipedia have deep content gaps based on gender, linguistic and ethnic minorities etc. The contest was ideated in 2019 and it is organized by WikiDonne User Group: our goal is to improve the free knowledge about sport (with a special focus on women, LGBT+ communities, para athletics, minorities and underrepresented groups), in all languages. For organizations or institutions that want to collaborate during this contest, please contact us on the discussion page or send an email to wikidonnegmail.com.