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Wikimedia International Update Corner May 2024
What will be going on in the international Wikimedia Space for the rest of the year? Let's have a look at the news and events that will happen in 2024!
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- Current contests
- Wiki Loves Earth 2024 (1 May-31 July 2024) - an annual international photographic competition held throughout May and July, organised worldwide by Wikimedia chapters, groups, and local Wikipedia volunteers. Participants take pictures of local natural heritage and scenic landscapes in their countries and upload them to Wikimedia Commons. For all participating countries, there are separate competitions organized by local teams, so periods, rules, prizes, etc., might differ a bit.
- Wikimedia CEE Spring 2024 (21 March-31 May 2024) - last week of the biggest writing contest in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. You can translate the article about Hasanpaşa Gasworks (Müze Gazhane), the venue of our Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024, into your own language before the end of CEE Spring :)
- #1Lib1Ref (15 May-5 June 2024) — abbreviated for one librarian, one reference — calls on librarians around the world, and anyone who has a passion for free knowledge, to add missing references to articles on Wikipedia.
- WikiForHumanRights (May-July 2024) — campaign to make sure that everyone has access to neutral, fact-based, and current information for a sustainable future that centers human rights, including topics like the Right to a Healthy Environment and other human rights.
- Past meetings & conferences in 2024
- Wikimedia Summit 2024 (19-21 April 2024) - The Wikimedia Summit is the place for Affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation to come together to discuss the future of the Wikimedia Movement. The Wikimedia Summit 2024 will focus on how the Movement is governed: how and at what level we make decisions about money, technology, strategy, and affiliates, and how that is written in the movement charter. You can find documentation from the summit along with the recordings on Commons.
- Global Wiki Advocacy Meet-up (2-5 May 2024) - Wikimedia Chile used this unique opportunity to host first global wiki meeting in Santiago as a side event of the Unesco conference, on May 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 2024. Goal of the meeting was to reunite Wikimedians from across the globe who conduct advocacy and public policy activities to promote and protect the Wikimedia model and its role in assuring access to relevant online information. You can find documentation from the meet-up on Commons.
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 (3-5 May 2024) – yearly tech extravaganza! It's the ultimate gathering where the global tech community unites to connect, hack, engage in technical discussions, and brainstorm game-changing ideas. Developers from across the globe converge to enhance the technological backbone that fuels and enriches the Wikimedia projects, including MediaWiki and various areas of Wikimedia code development. You can find documentation from the hackathon on Commons.
- Wikimedia Europe General Assembly (24–25 May 2024) – an annual gathering of members of Wikimedia Europe, an organisation created to further Wikimedia public policy efforts in the EU. Happening in Prague, Czechia.
- Upcoming meetings & conferences in 2024
- Wikimania 2024 (7–11 August 2024) - the annual global conference of Wikimedia in Katowice, Poland. Second Wikimania in the CEE region, after 2010 in Gdańsk, Poland.
- CEE Meeting 2024 (20–22 September 2024) – a yearly meeting of the Central and Eastern European Wikimedians. This year organised in Istanbul, Turkey by Wikimedia UG Türkiye. Programme submissions and registrations are open until the June 15th, 2024 (submit your proposal and register).