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Important topics from the Diff Blog with stories from the CEE Region

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By: Toni Ristovski (CEE Hub)

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Read more about Wikipedia 101 – a cross cultural Wikimedia outreach video tutorial project, which was lead by Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey (WMTR), along with Notre Dame English Club (NDEC) and Deoband Community Wikimedia (DCW). This project serves as a guide for beginners in the editing process on Wikimedia projects. WMTR released the Turkish version of the educational set during the last week of May 2023. There are plans to translate the video set into English, Bangla, and Urdu, with the assistance of the project partners on their YouTube channel, with the playlist named Vikipedi 101.

> Read more about this on the blog post.

Why don’t young people want to edit Wikipedia? This question was one of the many interesting and thought-provoking lectures, panels and meetings during the this year’s (W)zlot – Spring Wikimedian Meet-up. Session was organised by Polish Wikipedia’s youngest administrator Kacper Szymański [16-year-old] and youth activist and researcher Zuza Karcz [21-year-old]. You can read below their diagnose.

> Read more about this on the blog post.

You can check final results of the Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023, an annual campaign that sets a goal of creating better coverage of Ukrainian culture and people across all projects, organised by Wikimedia Ukraine and the Ukrainian Institute. This year Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy Month reached exceptional results, which you can check on the link below.

> Read more about this on the blog post.

During May 2023, on the Diff Blog, Wikimedia Ukraine publish the story about Oleh Shostak, Ukrainian Wikipedia’s most prolific editor, who is a nuclear physicist by education and a financial manager by profession. His favourite volunteer activity, though, is contributing to Wikipedia.

> Read more about this on the blog post.

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