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Feminism and Folklore 2026 starts soon
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- Invitation to Organize Feminism and Folklore 2026
Dear Wiki Community,
We are pleased to invite Wikimedia communities, affiliates, and independent contributors to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2026 writing competition on your local Wikipedia.
The international campaign will run from 1 February to 31 March 2026 and aims to improve coverage of feminism, women’s histories, gender-related topics, and folk culture across Wikipedia projects.
- About the Campaign
Feminism and Folklore is a global writing initiative that complements the Wiki Loves Folklore photography competition. While Wiki Loves Folklore focuses on visual documentation, this writing campaign addresses the gender gap on Wikipedia by improving encyclopedic content related to folk culture and marginalized voices.
- What Can Participants Write About?
Communities can contribute by creating, expanding, or translating articles related to:
- Folk festivals, rituals, and celebrations
- Folk dances, music, and traditional performances
- Women and queer figures in folklore
- Women in mythology and oral traditions
- Women warriors, witches, and witch-hunting narratives
- Fairy tales, folk stories, and legends
- Folk games, sports, and cultural practices
Participants may work from curated article lists or generate new article suggestions using campaign tools.
- How to Sign Up as an Organizer
Organizers are requested to complete the following steps to register their community:
- Create a local project page on your wiki (see sample)
- Set up the campaign using the CampWiz tool
- Prepare a local article list and clearly mention:
- Campaign timeline
- Local and international prizes
- Request a site notice from local administrators (see sample)
- Add your local project page and CampWiz link to the Meta project page
- Campaign Tools
The Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced tools to support organizers and participants:
- Article List Generator by Topic – Helps identify articles available on English Wikipedia but missing in your local language Wikipedia. The tool allows customized filters and provides downloadable article lists in CSV and wikitable formats.
- CampWiz – Enables communities to manage writing campaigns effectively, including jury-based evaluation. This will be the third year CampWiz is officially used for Feminism and Folklore.
Both tools are now available for use in the campaign. Click here to access the tools
- Learn More & Get Support
For detailed information about rules, timelines, and prizes, please visit the Feminism and Folklore 2026 project page.
If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out via:
- Meta talk page
- Email us using details on the contact page.
- Join Us
We look forward to your collaboration and coordination in making Feminism and Folklore 2026 a meaningful and impactful campaign for closing gender gaps and enriching folk culture content on Wikipedia.
Thank you and best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2026 International Team
Stay connected:
Gendered ship language
[change source](change conflict) I'm not 100%, but is it standard on simple to not refer to ships as 'she'. --IWI (talk) 12:31, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
- @ImprovedWikiImprovment where does it say that? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk | changes) 20:34, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
- If we follow en.wiki precedent whenever we don't have our own rule, then we do this: "Ships (military or private-sector) may be referred to by either neuter pronouns (it, its) or feminine pronouns (she, her). Both usages are acceptable, but each article should be internally consistent and exclusively employ only one style." So use either "she/her" or "it/it" but pick one for the whole article and stick with it. Darkfrog24 (talk) 23:00, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
- If it is not yet in a guideline on this wiki, I would say that we should say somewhere in the MOS to always use the neuter pronouns. Ships break the general rule of English and this could be unnecessarily confusing for non-native speakers, especially if there was a mix of using it and not. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 20:40, 14 March 2026 (UTC)
- I'd +1 this, imo it's best for our audiences to stick to using it/its for inanimates. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️🌈) 00:53, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
- Agreed. Our readers likely won’t understand the convention of referring to ships with female pronouns. To be honest, I don’t really understand why it’s done either. Garsh (talk) 22:28, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
- Understood, I'll keep this advice in mind. --IWI (talk) 01:18, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
Help
[change source]where is the heart that i should click to give a barnstar. I cant see it. TheGreatEditor024 (talk) 13:35, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
- TheGreatEditor024, we do not have that on this wiki. Instead, you can refer to Wikipedia:Barnstars to find barnstar templates to give out. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 23:44, 22 March 2026 (UTC)
Global ban for Faster than Thunder
[change source]Hello, this message is to notify that Faster than Thunder has been nominated for a global ban at m:Requests for comment/Global ban for Faster than Thunder. You are receiving this notification as required per the global ban policy as they have made at least 1 edit on this wiki. Thanks, --SHB2000 (talk) 01:53, 22 March 2026 (UTC)
Andrea Kimi Antonelli
[change source]Hi All,
The page on Andrea Kimi Antonelli (the F1 driver and the most recent (as of now) F1 race winner) needs updating dramatically, but I can't do this on my own...
Could anyone please help me with bringing more info to this page?
Thanks!
Phoenix13rb (talk) 12:44, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
- Hello! I don't see any problems is with the article. Do you need help with anything specific? Garsh (talk) 04:29, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
- A lot of it is out of date (though I have fixed some) and there is also A LOT more info to be added.
- Any help at all would be appreciated to be honest...
- Thanks.
- Phoenix13rb (talk) 11:41, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
- I can help Cyberwolf (talk) 13:27, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- I made big progress Cyberwolf (talk) 13:59, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- TYSM!
- Annoyingly, I have noticed a trend in F1-related articles... so many are so out of date... Sir Lewis Hamilton's is all over the place, some parts are up to date, but some are stuck in 2022... I have done a bit of work to it though.
- Together, we can bring the F1 articles back up to date! Phoenix13rb (talk) 09:18, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
Anyway to sync templates from en wiki
[change source]so en.wiki f1 templates are plug and play on simple.wiki. Is there any way the two can sync so when some one updates it after a race on en.wiki it updates here? Cyberwolf (talk) 13:26, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- Hello! There's not any mechanism for that, as far as I'm aware. You are welcome to directly copy and paste the new source from enwiki over to the template here, as long as you attribute it to enwiki. We do have the import function, but it's not used often. It's usually easier to just copy and paste with attribution. Garsh (talk) 17:39, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- Would apply for the import but i need like 150 more edits Cyberwolf (talk) 17:53, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- Let me know which templates should be imported and I can do it. Ternera (talk) 17:56, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- template:F1Laps1994 needs imported
Sorry for the header down there the conviennet discussions isn’t working right now Cyberwolf (talk) 18:11, 27 March 2026 (UTC)- List of Formula One driver records Should be imported too Cyberwolf (talk) 18:17, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- @Cyberwolf, I imported both pages for you. Make sure to simplify List of Formula One driver records so it doesn't get deleted under A3. Ternera (talk) 18:36, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- Done mostly Cyberwolf (talk) 19:01, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- @Cyberwolf, I imported both pages for you. Make sure to simplify List of Formula One driver records so it doesn't get deleted under A3. Ternera (talk) 18:36, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- List of Formula One driver records Should be imported too Cyberwolf (talk) 18:17, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- template:F1Laps1994 needs imported
- Let me know which templates should be imported and I can do it. Ternera (talk) 17:56, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
- Would apply for the import but i need like 150 more edits Cyberwolf (talk) 17:53, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
Upcoming Wikimedia Café meetup regarding the the 2026-2027 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan
[change source] | Hello! There will be a Wikimedia Café meetup on Saturday, 11 April 2026 at 14:00 UTC (timestamp conversion tool), focusing on the the 2026-2027 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan. The featured guests will be Kelsi Stine-Rowe (senior manager, Movement Communications, Wikimedia Foundation), and Sam Walton (senior product manager, Moderator Tools, Wikimedia Foundation). In addition to this Café session, several additional meetings regarding the Annual Plan are listed on the Collaboration page, and you may participate on the talk page. This Café meetup will be approximately two hours long. Attendees may choose to attend only for a part. Please see the Café page for more information, including how to register.  |
Join the sixth Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy Month on Wikipedia!
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Please help translate to your language
Dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the MFA of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has launched the sixth edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st April until 30th April 2026.
The initiative aims to promote knowledge about Ukrainian culture abroad by creating and improving Wikipedia articles in multiple languages. This year marks the sixth edition of the campaign, which will focus on contemporary culture, making today’s artistic voices and practices more visible to international audiences.
🧩How to participate?
Choose an article from the suggested list → Write an article in your language, or improve an existing one according to the rules → Add your contribution to the contest page and calculate your points → Win prizes and receive a certificate of participation → Become a promoter of truthful knowledge about Ukraine.
🧩Check our main page for more information.
If you are interested in coordinating long-term community engagement for the campaign and becoming a local ambassador, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know your interest.
If not, then we encourage you to translate the landing page of the contest and banner into your own language.
Also, we set up a banner to notify users of the possibility to participate in this challenge!