Wikimedia CH/Grant apply/Wiki Loves Sport 2025

Infodata

• Name of the project: Wiki Loves Sport 2025: Covering diversity in sport
• Amount requested: 1050€
• Type of grantee: INDIVIDUAL
• Name of the contact: Camelia Boban
• Contact: camelia.bobangmail.com

In case of questions, please write to grantwikimedia.ch

The problem and the context

Wiki Loves Sport 2025 logo by user Maria-beatrice-wk

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

Wikipedia is by design a living, breathing thing—a collection of knowledge that many sources, in aggregate, say is worth knowing. It is therefore a reflection of the world's biases more than it is a cause of them.

— Katherine Maher

Since 2011 when the problem was clearly focused, various WMF community reports, researches, surveys and accademic researches have highlighted a huge gender gap, and women in sport is one of the less represented topic. According to Humaniki, three of the four official Swiss languages are on the top 10 list of most spoken languages. Seeing the Humaniki tool, from the 713.264 biographies in French Wikipedia, only 142.513 (19.980%) are about women and 1.026 (0.144%) are relative to the LGBTQIA+ community. In German and Italian Wikipedia the numbers are even lower: 180.829 women bios and 752 for other gender from the total of 985.632 biographies (18.347% and 0.076%), respectively 84.820 and 434 (17.063% and 0.086%).

Campaign's context

Wiki Loves Sport 2025 is the seventh edition of the campaign ideated and organized since 2019 as part of WikiDonne Roadmap, one of the projects awarded in 2018. The objective is to improve and extend content related to sport in general - related to the events it covers in particular - with a special focus on content concerning missing or underrepresented groups (women, LGBTQIA+ community, para athlets).

Poster representing the campaign (Wikimania 2025) by user Camelia.boban

This year the campaign runs from 21th July to 21th September and covers the following sport events:

• 2025 Women's T20 Blast (cricket), 30 May - 27th July, London
• EuroBasket Women 2025 from 18 to 29 June (Czechia, Germany, Italy, Greece);
• 2025 Wimbledon Championships from 30 June to 13 July;
• 2025 World Aquatics Championships from 11 July to 3 August (Singapore):
• Copa América Femenina 2025 (football), 12th July – 2nd August (Ecuador)
• 2025 Women's Pan American Cup (Field Hockey), 24th July – 3rd August (Uruguay)
• Tour de France Femmes 2025 (cycling), 26th July – 3rd August (France)
• 2025 Women's British Open (golf), 31st July – 3rd August (Wales)
• 2025 UEFA Women's Championship from 2 to 27 July (Switzerland);
• 2025 US Open from 25 August to 7 September;
• 2025 World Athletics Championships from 13 to 21 September (Japan).

What is your solution to this problem (please explain the context and the solution)?

Wiki Loves Sport 2025 campaign aims to significantly address the gender gap in sports coverage by amplifying women in sports contributions. Our multi-pronged approach includes:

• Outreach: Partnership with women's sports organizations, athletes, and journalists to encourage participation in the contest in order to create awareness about Wiki Loves Sport and highlight the importance of documenting women in sport history.
• Thematic challenges: Within the broader Wiki Loves Sport contest, we established specific challenges focused on women's sports and para athlets that will receive additional points.
• Edit-a-thons: Organize online and offline edit-a-thons specifically dedicated to creating and improving Wikipedia and Wikiquote articles and the wikibook related to the contest. These events will provide training and support for new editors and foster collaboration.
• Recognition and awards: Besides the prizes, the participants effort will be recognized by barnstars and digital certificates of participation or award, recognitions that will incentivize participation and highlight the value of these contributions.

Project goals

In the past, Wiki Loves Sport registered a good number of written articles in different languages. In 2024, 147 users wrote about 3000 new articles in 9 languages (ckb, en, es, fr, it, gpe, ru, sr, uz).

Expected outcomes for this year, from 21 July to 21 September:

• Increased content: We expect a significant rise in the number of articles related to diverse sports figures on Wikimedia projects in at least 5 languages.
• Improved content quality: The contest will motivate participants to contribute high-quality content that meets Wikipedia's standards. we have a points system that rewards not only the creation of new entries, but also the improvement, in order to resolve all the warnings that an entry may have: lack of sources, orphan entry, entry to be helped or wikified, stub etc.
• Enhanced diversity: The project will significantly improve representation of female, non-binary, and para-athletes in Wikipedia's sports coverage.
• Empower new editors: We aim to attract new editors (especially with athletic backgrounds) to the Wikimedia community.

Project impact

How will you know if you have met your goals?

The results of Wiki Loves Sport 2025 won't be completely available until after the contest concludes on September 22nd, 2025. However, it is always possible monitoring the impact through the number of participants and content produced, number of Wikipedia and Wikiquote articles, number of Wikidata items, the visibility on social media, articles written on our site and on Diff etc. The metrics will be available:

• The campaign results page will collect the articles linked in the original language and the total points per user.
• Dashboard: will contain the participants, the written articles, the resources added and many other metrics provided by the tool. This is a complehensive campaign page, but any single local event was invited to create its own program.

Do you have any goals or metrics around participation or content?

We aim to have at least 30 participants to write more than 500 articles in Wikipedia covering 5 languages. We also aim to have at least 10 articles in Wikiquote and a new chapter written in our Wikibook about para-athletes. We will also create the missing items in Wikidata, but we cannot make an estimation at that moment.

Project plan

Activities

Wiki Loves Sport 2025 is the seveth edition of the campaign ideated and organized since 2019 as part of WikiDonne Roadmap, one of the projects awarded in 2018. The objective is to improve and extend content related to sport in general - related to the events it covers in particular - with a special focus on content concerning missing or underrepresented groups (women, LGBTQIA+ community, para athlets). This year the campaign runs from 21th July to 21th September, inclusing the 2025 UEFA Women's Championship in Switzerland.

During these more than 2 months, are planned the following activities:

• Workshops and webinars: Hosting online workshops and webinars to equip participants with necessary skills for editing. In Italian we will have at least one preliminary webinar before having the in person editing event.
• Edit-a-thons in various languages of Wikipedia: Local sessions that incentivizes writing new articles in different Wikipedia languages or improving existing ones, with the focus on female, non-binary, and para-athletes biographies. Creating the related item in Wikidata or adding additional metadata would be a plus, I hope we can do it in all the langues, in order to have all data connected.
• Writing related quotes in Italian Wikiquote: during many activity, usually WikiDonne enrich the female activities by writing also the Wikiquote article.
• Writing a new chapter of our wikibook about para-athletes winning medals during international competitions in Italian Wikibooks.
• Graphics, outreach and promotion: Designing eye-catching graphic materials and develop an effective outreach strategy to promote the contest across social media platforms, relevant online communities, and sports organizations.

Budget

This is the budget table containing the expenses.

N°	Description	Unit	Amount (EUR)
1	International prizes (various languages)	6	300 €
2	Local prizes (Italian projects)	6	300 €
3	Graphic design	1	200 €
4	Social media promotion	1	200 €
5	Bank fees (change + transfer)	1	50 €
Total			1050 €

Community engagement

For this event a central notice banner was requested and the edit-a-thon was signed on the Calendar. Communities will be informed through notifications to the village pump and talk pages. The campaign will be promoted throw our and our partner social media channels and sites.

Wikimedia CH's response

Dear Camelia,
Thank you for your grant request. We are pleased to accept it as it is, without any changes. I will email you shortly to coordinate the payment. After completion of the activity, please hand in a report of at least one paragraph (preferably with images) for publication on various WMCH outlets like the newsletter.--Dorine Barth (WMCH) (talk) 12:02, 7 August 2025 (UTC)