Wikipedia for Peace/Not Your Soldier 2024
Wikipedia for Peace: Not Your Soldier
St. Imier (Switzerland), 28 June - 5 July 2024
About the project
In many countries it is obligatory to do military service, usually only for young men (or what the government perceives to be “men”). Other countries are debating whether they should reintroduce obligatory military service in the context of a global militarization and an increase of wars. But will more militarization of young people really ever bring us peace? In this camp, we will discuss and research military conscription, its history and present, with a special focus on people who refuse(d) to do military service (= conscientious objectors).
A week of editing Wikipedia together in Switzerland and connecting! We will do research for Wikipedia articles online about military service and conscientious objectors, writing new articles and improving/translating existing ones. For beginners, there will be a training about technical and content aspects of editing Wikipedia. You don’t have to have knowledge on Wikipedia already.
Wikipedia for Peace. This camp is a part of the initiative Wikipedia for Peace that Service Civil International and Wikimedia have been running since 2015 in order to improve the content about peace on Wikipedia and in order to engage new target groups (young people, activists, women*, queer people) in the world of Wikipedia. This specific camp is organised by Service Civil International Switzerland in cooperation with Wikimedia Switzerland.
Join the project
We are still looking for participants!
- Please register here in the SCI camp database!
- If the registration there doesn't work for some reason (e.g. there is no SCI partner organisation in your country), please reach out to Ainhoa at placement@scich.org.
Participants
If you were officially accepted as a participant to the project, please add yourself to the participants list. You can do that by copying the signs #--~~~~ at the end of the page and clicking on "Publish changes"!
Results
Here we will list all articles that we edit and write during the project. Add new article
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Article suggestions
This is the list of articles we will write about during the project and it is currently under construction. If you have an idea of an article that we could add to this list, feel free to write Thomas!
People
| № | Bild | Article | Description | de | en | fr | it | Σ |
Wikidata | st. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antonio Gargallo Mejía (1918-1937) | Spanish conscientious objector executed during the Civil War | - | - | - | - | 0 | Q5698447 | 13 | ||
| 2 |  |
Pepe Beunza (b. 1945) | Spanish peace activist and conscentious objector | - | - | - | - | 0 | Q11940871 | 10 | + |
| 3 | Tayfun Gönül (1958-2012) | Turkish conscentious objector | - | + | + | - | 2 | Q17430735 | 11 | ||
| 4 |  |
Franz Jägerstätter (1907-1943) | Austrian martyr and conscientious objector | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q45243 | 26 | + |
| 5 | .png) |
August Dickmann (1910-1939) | German conscientious objector | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q74444 | 15 | + |
| 6 | Johann Nobis (1899-1940) | Austrian conscientious objector | + | + | + | - | 3 | Q78863 | 13 | + | |
| 7 |  |
Arndt Pekurinen (1905-1941) | Finnish pacifist | + | + | - | - | 2 | Q692068 | 16 | + |
| 8 | Hansjörg Weigel (1943-2020) | German civil rights activist and pacifist | + | - | - | - | 1 | Q95283254 | 13 | ||
| 9 | Hubert W. Peet (1886-1951) | Quaker journalist and WWI conscientious objector | - | - | - | - | 0 | Q61917091 | 9 | + | |
| 10 |  |
Kees Vellekoop (1952-2013) | Dutch conscientious objector and peace activist | - | - | - | - | 0 | Q2193561 | 12 | + |
| 11 | Tal Mitnick (?) | Israeli conscientious objector and peace activist | - | - | - | - | 0 | Q124038452 | 7 | ||
| 12 |  |
Lucien Tronchet (1902-1982) | Swiss baker, mason and anarcho-syndicalist activist (1902-1982) | - | + | + | - | 2 | Q51845983 | 16 | + |
| 13 |  |
Pierre Cérésole (1879-1945) | Swiss pacifist, engineer and quaker (1879-1945) | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q116353 | 20 | + |
| 14 | Vasily Pozdnyakov (1869-1921) | Russian activist | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q7916799 | 7 | ||
| 15 | Agustin Aguayo (b. 1971) | United States Army soldier and conscientious objector | + | + | - | - | 2 | Q4694620 | 12 | ||
| 16 |  |
Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal (b. 1996) | Thai activist, librarian, publisher and author | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q21280805 | 8 | + |
| 17 | Stojan Cerović (1949-2005) | Serbian journalist (1949-2005) | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q1561272 | 8 | ||
| 18 |  |
Ruslan Kotsaba (b. 1966) | Ukrainian journalist, activist and prisoner of conscience | + | + | - | - | 2 | Q19326727 | 15 | + |
| 19 | Sofia Orr (?) | Israeli conscientious objector | - | - | - | - | 0 | Q125414925 | 4 | ||
| 20 | Atalya Ben-Abba (?) | Israeli conscientious objector | - | - | - | - | 0 | Q125415162 | 4 | ||
| 21 | Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) | American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016) | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q36107 | 51 | + | |
| 22 |  |
Bülent Ersoy (b. 1952) | Turkish singer and actress | + | + | + | - | 3 | Q467067 | 16 | + |
| Σ | → Autolist→ gallery→ timeline | 10 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 36 | avg: 2\9\41% | 306 | 
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Organisations, movements, events, laws, cultural works
| № | Bild | Article | Description | de | en | fr | it | Σ |
Wikidata | st. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2013 Austrian conscription referendum | referendum around abolition of conscription in Austria | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q250241 | 3 | + | |
| 2 | Mesarvot | Israeli non-profit organization | - | - | - | - | 0 | Q124286887 | 2 | ||
| 3 | War Resisters' International | organization | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q1890441 | 4 | + | |
| 4 | European Bureau for Conscientious Objection | umbrella organisation for national associations of conscientious objectors | + | + | - | - | 2 | Q95479076 | 9 | ||
| 5 | Israeli Selective Service Law | Israeli law that regulates military conscription | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q16132211 | 0 | ||
| 6 | Protest against the conscription of yeshiva in Israel | 2014 mass rally in Jerusalem | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q15873322 | 4 | + | |
| 7 | construction soldier | person who didn't bear arms but instead did construction work in the military of the German Democratic Republic | + | + | + | - | 3 | Q811867 | 3 | + | |
| 8 | Draft evasion in the Vietnam War | U.S. and Australian social phenomenon, 1964–1973 | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q85757599 | 1 | ||
| 9 | |
Insubordinate movement in Spain | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q9164575 | 6 | + | |
| 10 | conscientious objection of Jehovah's Witnesses | + | - | - | - | 1 | Q1788721 | 2 | |||
| 11 | Yesh Gvul | Israeli NGO for conscientious objection | + | + | + | - | 3 | Q1688045 | 5 | ||
| 12 | Swiss Civilian Service | overview about the Swiss Civilian Service | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q13423498 | 3 | ||
| 13 | Ephebic Oath | oath sworn by young men of Classical Athens, typically eighteen-year-old sons of Athenian citizens upon induction into the Ephebic College | - | + | - | + | 2 | Q5382132 | 1 | ||
| 14 |  |
don't ask, don't tell | 1993-2010 policy on gay people serving in the US military | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q135475 | 9 | + |
| 15 | Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 | 2011 US federal law allowing LGBT people to openly serve in the military | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q3660063 | 10 | + | |
| 16 | CIVIVA | Swiss association for civil service | + | - | - | - | 1 | Q95469549 | 5 | ||
| 17 | German Peace Society | German association | + | + | + | - | 3 | Q457233 | 9 | + | |
| 18 | Movimento nonviolento | Italian peace organisation | - | - | - | + | 1 | Q3866601 | 4 | ||
| 19 | Richmond Sixteen | group of "absolutist" English conscientious objectors during the First World War | - | + | - | + | 2 | Q18390366 | 5 | ||
| 20 | A Hidden Life | 2019 film by Terrence Malick | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q27555348 | 28 | ||
| 21 |  |
The Human Condition | Japanese film series | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q808114 | 17 | + |
| 22 | Le Déserteur | song | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q733238 | 9 | ||
| 23 | Thou Shalt Not Kill | 1961 film by Claude Autant-Lara | - | + | + | + | 3 | Q2062914 | 17 | ||
| 24 | Objector | 2019 documentary film | - | - | - | - | 0 | Q125415148 | 4 | ||
| Σ | → Autolist→ gallery→ timeline | 13 | 19 | 11 | 11 | 54 | avg: 2\14\56% | 160 |
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Situation in different places
| № | Bild | Article | Description | de | en | fr | it | Σ |
Wikidata | st. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conscription in Switzerland | overview of conscription in Switzerland | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q5162767 | 1 | ||
| 2 | Conscription in Azerbaijan | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q55116382 | 2 | |||
| 3 | Conscription in Greece | overview of conscription in Greece | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q3567015 | 1 | ||
| 4 | Conscription in Israel | overview of conscription in Israel | - | + | + | - | 2 | Q2363995 | 3 | ||
| 5 | Conscription in Austria | + | - | - | - | 1 | Q117287555 | 2 | |||
| 6 | Conscription in Cyprus | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q16833681 | 2 | |||
| 7 | Conscription in Ukraine | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q20075259 | 2 | + | ||
| 8 | Conscientious objection in Germany | + | - | - | - | 1 | Q1788722 | 3 | |||
| 9 | conscription in the Republic of Korea | compulsory military service in South Korea | - | + | - | + | 2 | Q5162770 | 3 | + | |
| 10 | Conscription in Eritrea | overview of conscription in Eritrea | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q124060999 | 2 | ||
| 11 |  |
refusal to serve in the Israeli military | conscientious objection in Israel (1948-) | + | + | + | - | 3 | Q1526321 | 4 | + |
| 12 | conscription in the Soviet Union | overview of conscription in the Soviet Union | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q65065927 | 2 | ||
| 13 | Conscription in Egypt | compulsory military service in Egypt | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q5162761 | 4 | ||
| Σ | → Autolist→ gallery | 3 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 17 | avg: 1\4\33% | 31 |
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Concepts
| № | Bild | Article | Description | de | en | fr | it | Σ |
Wikidata | st. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conscription | compulsory enlistment into national or military service | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q580750 | 6 | + | |
| 2 | military service | performing the service in the armed forces of a state | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q209572 | 6 | + | |
| 3 | .jpg) |
military recruitment | recruitment for military positions | + | + | + | - | 3 | Q451987 | 3 | + |
| 4 | conscientious objector | individual who refuses to do something on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, and/or religion | + | + | - | - | 2 | Q2930613 | 7 | + | |
| 5 | conscientious objection to military service | type of draft evasion | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q5576246 | 2 | ||
| 6 |  |
alternative civilian service | alternative to military service in countries with military conscription | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q702635 | 5 | + |
| 7 | Counter-recruitment | activity opposing military recruitment | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q5176897 | 0 | + | |
| 8 |  |
draft evasion | intentional non-compliance with military conscription | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q1379902 | 5 | + |
| 9 | total conscientious objection | refusing to enage in military or non-military service | + | - | - | - | 1 | Q2445546 | 1 | ||
| 10 | desertion | abandonment of military duty without authorization | + | + | + | + | 4 | Q633339 | 4 | + | |
| 11 | Conscription and sexism | Discrimination in military enlistment | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q22907446 | 1 | ||
| 12 | male expendability | idea in anthropology | - | + | - | - | 1 | Q39047923 | 2 | ||
| Σ | → Autolist→ gallery | 9 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 33 | avg: 3\8\69% | 42 |
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