Wikimedia CEE Spring 2026
Wikimedia CEE Spring 2026 is an annual event organized by Wikimedians participating in the Central and Eastern Europe collaboration. The event focuses on supporting the creation of articles about every country in the region across all language editions of Wikipedia.
The goal of Wikimedia CEE Spring is to bring together local communities of free knowledge enthusiasts to gather and share information about the history, culture, traditions, and people of Central and Eastern Europe. This initiative aims to promote mutual recognition and understanding while increasing the quantity and quality of free knowledge available about the region globally.
Context and Contest
[edit]In contemporary times the CEE region has experienced several unfortunate spring seasons that have resulted in misunderstandings, conflicts and disappointment – exempli gratia the replacement of Alexander Dubček in April of 1969 to reverse the Prague Spring, escalating conflicts in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in the Spring of 1988, intensification of Transnistrian conflict in March of 1992, the beginning of the Bosnian War in April of 1992, the Spring of 2014 that marked the beginning of the war in Donbass, the revolution in Armenia in the spring of 2018, as well as the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022.
The event itself takes place traditionally from the 21 March until 31 May, but local contests can be shorter depending on the plans of the local organisers. During this time period there will be an individual article competition on hopefully all Wikipedias in the region and many outside of it, concentrating on creating and significantly improving articles in different categories like history, culture and notable people of each and every participating country or region. For more information about article topics, please consult the pages on the article lists.
Local competitions are organised by local teams and in every community the competition will be slightly different in order to take local context into account. Contact data of the local coordinators can be found on the contacts page. Local teams present lists of articles on their country or region which they would like to see in every possible language and editors from all other countries create and significantly edit those articles, whereby participants can write about any topic, connected with the other participating countries in the region.
The more participants, the merrier! If new communities from Central and Eastern Europe join during the spring, local organisers should work on the list of tasks — and have fun!
International organisers
[edit]If you are interested in joining the international team, please contact one of the volunteers below! We're always happy to welcome new volunteers to the team! :-)
| Nominal | Username | Country | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiril Simeonovski | Kiril Simeonovski | North Macedonia | Wikimedia MKD |
| Mārtiņš Bruņenieks | Papuass | Latvia | Wikimedians of Latvia User Group |
| Philip Kopetzky | Philip Kopetzky | Austria | Austrian community |
| Nikos Likomitros | NikosLikomitros | Greece | Wikimedia Community User Group Greece, CEE Youth Group |
| Anastasia Lvova | Lvova | Russia | North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group |
| Marek Stelmasik | Masti | Poland | Wikimedia Poland |
| Mohammad Heidarzadeh | MHeidarzadeh-CEEhub | Iran | Wikimedia CEE Hub |
| Kamola Abduganieva | Miss Kamola | Uzbekistan | Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group, CEE Youth Group |
As an international event we would like to highlight the Hall of Fame contest, where you can receive a small gift for writing an article on all participating countries.