2025

This page features a list of projects and programs Wikimedia Ukraine plans to implement in 2025. It was prepared based on the general strategic direction and proposals from community members.

Note: this plan is preliminary and can change dependent on external circumstances, primarily the situation in Ukraine in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion.

Content enrichment

Bridging text content gaps

• Developing criteria for assessing and prioritizing content gaps on Ukrainian Wikipedia
• Content campaigns with external partners: Ukraine's Culture Diplomacy Month 2025 etc.
• Support to thematic weeks on Ukrainian Wikipedia and sister projects at community members' requests (via microgrants)
• Thematic campaigns devoted to world regions: CEE Spring and/or Asian Month and/or a campaign on Africa
• Supporting initiatives to attract content to sister Wikimedia projects: Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikivoyage and others (for example, regular proofreading campaigns on Wikisource)
• Support to initiatives for digitizing freely licensed sources, particularly in cooperation with partners
• Supporting campaigns for attracting local content: WikiKharkivshchyna 2025 and/or others

Enhancing quality of content

• Wikigrants to fund purchase of literature to improve Wikimedia proects (via microgrants)
• Thematic campaign devoted to improvement of key articles (for example, week of popular articles and/or page reviewing week)
• Support of other initiatives for enhancing quality of content, such as expert evaluation of combatting disinformation (provided such initiatives arise)

Attracting media content

• Support to the Wiki Loves Earth 2025 photo contest on the international stage
• Wiki Loves Earth 2025 in Ukraine photo contest
• Wiki Loves Monuments 2025 in Ukraine photo contest
• Support of wikiexpeditions — trips to visit local places and sites to improve their coverage on Wikimedia projects (dependent on the situation in Ukraine in 2025, particularly on whether martial law will still be in place)
• Working with photographers and photo journalists to attract media content (including collective and individual training sessions)
• Photography grants for Wikimedians to cover events (via microgrants)
• GLAM: cooperation with libraries, galleries, archives and museums to attract content to Wikimedia projects
  • “Open GLAM in Ukraine” project in cooperation with Wikimedia Sweden supported by the Swedish Institute
  • Cooperation with other institutions to attract thematic media content within the GLAM program
• Organizing contests and other content campaigns for GLAM specialists:
  • 1lib1ref and “EveryBookItsReader” for librarians
  • International Museum Day 2025 and/or other projects to cooperate with the museum community
• Developing partnerships and conducting research in the field of cultural and natural heritage protection to support content enrichment activities within the Heritage Guard Network project (depending on the availability of funding)

Increasing participation

Attracting new editors to Wikimedia projects

• Wikimarathon 2025
• Organizing contests and other content campaigns for attracting experts/specific target audiences
  • Wikipedia for School 2025 article contest (on Wikipedia and sister projects)
  • Science Photo Competition 2025
  • Wiki Loves Folklore photo contest
• Wikipedia Education Program — cooperation with educational institutions (schools and universities) for integration of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in the educational process
  • Conducting lectures, trainings and other educational events for pupils and students
  • Development of the community of Wikimedia educators — annual conference, online events, support of communication channels
• Development of online courses about Wikipedia
  • Support of the "Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom" course on Wikipedia for teachers (promotion of the basic level, regular courses on the intermediate/advanced levels)
  • Finalizing the course on Wikipedia for beginners

Increasing diversity of the community of editors, development of inclusiveness

• Marathons for gender equality: WikiGap 2025, “She Did It” campaign on Ukrainian Wikipedia, #SheSaid campaign on Ukrainian Wikiquote and/or others
• Development of the Crimean Tatar Wikipedia: article marathon, events to attract new contributors, establishing partnerships etc.
• Supporting communities of sister Wikimedia projects, including awards to most active users of sister projects in Ukrainian and creation of training materials
• Organizing events for underrepresented groups to engage them in editing Wikipedia (women, senior citizens, neurodiverse people, other vulnerable groups)

Wikimedia community support and development

Instruction for community members, facilitation of experience sharing

• Organizing training sessions for the community for specific skills (based on the results of the analysis of community needs and capacities)
• Scholarships to participate in external training sessions per requests
• Wikiconference 2025
• Wikimedia Ukraine's General Assembly
• Supporting initiatives to organize other events for the Ukrainian Wikimedia community (for example, events for local communities in specific cities)
• Developing support for experienced Wikipedia volunteers (administrators and patrollers): analyzing needs, organizing an event for training and sharing experiences etc.
• Scholarships for international Wikimedia events, particularly:
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2025
  • Wikimania 2025
  • Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025

Increasing the community's resilience, motivation and awareness

• Support to the community during the war (and other crisis situations as needed) — facilitation of material and psychological support, consultation and informational assistance
• Wikizghushchivka / Condensed Milk (monthly award for the most active users of Ukrainian-language Wikimedia projects)
• Discussing with the community the introduction of a periodic award for the Ukrainian Wikimedia community
• Monthly news digests for the community

Awareness about Wikimedia

Media support and promotion of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects

• Communications work to promote Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects, publication of stories of individual volunteers, as well as popularization of Wikimedia Ukraine's projects and overall activities, according to the current consistent communication practices
• Support of existing communications channels (social media, blogs) and launch of new ones as needed; work on new formats in social media, particularly video
• Working with the media – delivering regular press releases, pitching topics proactively
• International communication: spreading information about the the organization's and the Ukrainian community's activities and needs among the international Wikimedia community
• Organizing promotional events (press conferences, lectures, webinars etc.)

Working with readers and the general public to increase awareness

• Creation of informational resources and guides about Wikipedia and sister projects (texts, videos)
• Organization of lectures and trainings about Wikipedia and wikiprojects, in particular in cooperation with external partners

Advocacy

• Promoting the use of free licenses
• Supporting initiatives for "freedom of panorama" advocacy in Ukraine
• Advocacy of other changes that benefit the development of free knowledge
• Monitoring relevant changes in legislation (especially with regard to European integration)

Institutional development

• Increasing involvement of the wikicommunity in the organization's activities, increasing the number of members of the NGO Wikimedia Ukraine and other volunteers
• Improving training, onboarding, and offboarding practices for key volunteers, improving the process of transferring institutional memory (creation of permanent organizational committees; creation of an onboarding procedure for new members of organizational committees and offboarding of volunteers who leave them; creation of materials/documents for transferring institutional memory)
• Attracting additional sources of funding from outside the Wikimedia movement with the participation of other organizations and institutions, supporting grant applications of partners
• Incremental improvements in operational management and coordination of staff and contractors
• Advancement of international cooperation, particularly through Wikimedia CEE Hub and Wikimedia Europe