Wiki Loves Sport 2026

Welcome to the Wikimedia contest Wiki Loves Sport 2026

the eighth edition of the Wikimedia campaign to write or improve sport-related articles
1 August - 4 October

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 eighth 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 ? and ?, 2026. 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

This year, the campaign covers the following sport events (selection):

2026 Commonwealth Games (multi-sport, including athletics, swimming, and more), 23 July – 2 August, Glasgow
World Para Athletics Grand Prix 2026, 23 July – 2 August, Glasgow (integrated into the Commonwealth Games)^[1]
AIG Women's Open 2026 (golf), 29 July – 2 August, Royal Lytham & St Annes, England^[2]
Tour de France Femmes (cycling), 1–9 August
World Athletics U20 Championships, 5–9 August, Oregon, USA
European Athletics Championships, 10–16 August, Birmingham, England
FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, 12–16 August, Frankfurt, Germany
Women's FIH Hockey World Cup (field hockey), 14–30 August, Belgium & Netherland
2026 BWF World Championships (badminton), 17–23 August, New Delhi, India
2026 Lloyds Tour of Britain Women 2026 (cycling), 19–23 August, United Kingdom^[3]
2026 Mediterranean Games, 21 August – 3 September, Taranto, Italy
2026 World Masters Athletics Championships, 22 August – 3 September, Daegu, South Korea^[4]
US Open (tennis), 31 August – 13 September, New York
2026 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, 4–7 September, Alabama, USA^[5]
FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, 4–13 September, Berlin, Germany
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (football), 5–27 September, Poland
Solheim Cup 2026 (golf), 7–13 September, Bernardus, Netherlands^[6]
World Athletics Ultimate Championship, 11–13 September, Budapest, Hungary
Football at the 2026 Asian Games – Women's tournament, 14 September – 2 October, Japan
World Athletics Road Running Championships, 19–20 September, Copenhagen, Denmark
Billie Jean King Cup Finals (tennis), 7 April-21 November, Shenzhen, China
Softball at the 2026 Asian Games (women only), 26 September – 3 October, Japan

When?

The writing contest runs from 1 August to 4 October (UTC).

Where?

The contest will be essentially held online. Other activities (mainly the local ones or on other Wikimedia project like Wikibooks and Wikiquote) 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;
Project in Arabic: Edit-a-thon on FIFA World Cup 2026
Project in Serbian: Serbian 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.