Wikimedia CEE Spring/Guide for local coordinators

Wikimedia CEE Spring is an international editing contest that traditionally is held in the period from 21st of March until 31st of May every year in almost every country and/or community in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region.

Every country and/or community which participated in the CEE Spring needs to publish a separate project page on their Wikipedia, where they will inform participants about the duration of the contest, which can be held in a shorter period of the international editing contest.

Who can be a local coordinator?

Local coordinators are not selected by the International Team of the CEE Spring, but come from local communities of their Wikipedia and/or from their local affiliates (organizations). Therefore, a local coordinator can be any interested person from the respective Wikipedia, who can organize the local editing contest. There are no official rules with eligibility criteria which local coordinators should fulfill, but the process is run by communities/affiliates.

Tasks for a local coordinator

Prior to the editing contest

Prior to the editing contest, local coordinators have to prepare the following:

• sign-up as official local coordinator on Meta page dedicated to CEE Spring; Add yourself
• create separate project pages about CEE Spring as an international editing contest and their separate editing contest (if they have it) on their home Wikipedia; Link the local page to Q124301055. You can use this template for local page from 2016 if you wish.
  • for statistics purposes, create a local category for the contest and link it to Q124370350.
• discuss the rules of the contest with their community (if they are first time) and afterwards publish this on the main page for CEE Spring;
• define a list of around 100 articles about their country, region or language, which can be distributed in ten per possible categories (provided by the International team). Article lists can be provided directly from the local coordinator or through discussion page on the respective home wikis with the help from the respective communities;
  • put the lists on Template:Wikimedia CEE Spring 2024 Article Lists by Country.
    • Important: The Lua-Module currently can not handle more than 400 entries on one page, so please keep your list below that number of articles'
  • if the local coordinator organizes the contest several times, we recommend that you review if articles from your previous years are available on the languages that participate in the contest. If yes, then remove those articles from the lists, and modify the list with new articles from your community.
• create all needed templates and categories for better statistics on the editing contest on national and international level;
• organize a jury from other volunteers in the movement, who will not take part in the contest;
• inform the community and active editors about upcoming editing contest on their Wikipedia; and
• announcing prizes (if you will decide to have it) along with the editing contest on their Wikipedia.

During the editing contest:

During the editing contest, local coordinators need to:

• make sure that all participating articles on their own wiki have the needed template with parameters for username, topic and country (Template:CEE Spring 2024), which is needed to follow proper statistics; and
• promote the contest and give additional information about the contest through sitenotice, social media, blogs, or other ways.

After the editing contest:

After the editing contest, local coordinators have to make following:

• review all of the submitted articles, if they have the necessary information (as templates) in order to have proper statistics on national and international level;
• contact the jury members that they can start with submitting their points for the articles;
• announce and notify the winners in the contest, after receiving the points from the jury members; and
• give the prizes to the winners of the contest.