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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:

1. Create a local project page on your wiki (see sample)
2. Set up the campaign using the CampWiz tool
3. Prepare a local article list and clearly mention:
   • Campaign timeline
   • Local and international prizes
4. Request a site notice from local administrators (see sample)
5. 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

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Invitation to adapt the Article guidance outlines

Dear Wikipedians!

We are pleased to announce that the Article Guidance outlines are now ready for your adaptation and integration into Simple English Wikipedia. Adapting these outlines will help ensure that new and less experienced editors get support tailored to the unique standards and practices of this community when the feature goes live.

Here is how to adapt an outline:

• Choose an outline from the prioritized list to adapt (for example: Project:ArticleGuidance/Person).
• Create a new page in the Wikipedia namespace using this format: Wikipedia:Article Guidance/[outline name]. For example, use Wikipedia:Article Guidance/Person for the Project:ArticleGuidance/Person outline.
• Open the 'Edit source' mode to access the outline content you want to adapt.
• Copy the content from the source editor and paste it into your new page, ensuring that all tags remain unchanged from the original.
• Edit the pasted content to match Simple English Wikipedia’s standards, policies, and templates. Do not remove or modify any tags or the text within the angle brackets (e.g., <instructions>... </instructions>), as these are required for the feature to function properly. For more details on markup elements, see the 'Quick guide to markups used in outlines'.
• Publish the page when you have finished adapting the outline.

Please note that pages may appear odd after publishing until the extension is deployed. You can continue adapting additional outlines in this link: https://b24e11a4f1.catalyst.wmcloud.org/wiki/Category:Pages_using_article_guidance

Our goal is to enable the feature on Simple English Wikipedia in May. We would appreciate it if editors can adapt all prioritized outlines and more by 15th May, 2026. If you have any questions, please share them on this talk page

Thank you for your dedication to this project! UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 23:38, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

GA bump

Hello community,

There are two untouched GA proposals that have sat for some time (including one of my own). They may be worth having a look at, if some folks have time.

Thanks, Garsh (talk) 03:49, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

No longer NPOV

The page about 2025 India–Pakistan conflict no longer adheres to the NPOV policy. One user who was editing that page, abusing multiple accounts has been blocked but another is still inserting sentences that are not as per the NPOV policy. Please see the original English Wikipedia article about the same at w:2025 India–Pakistan conflict to understand what I mean.-Baangla (talk) 16:39, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

I found a rare example of a page existing only on simple English Wikipedia

Brown v. Board of Education II is a rare example of a page only existing on simple English Wikipedia without a corresponding English translation do you think this might be notable enough for its own English Wikipedia page Amapenguin (talk) 07:00, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

You can find the entire list of articles that aren’t connected to one at another wiki at Special:WithoutInterwiki.

as for this one: the English Wikipedia does information on it as a subsection of the main Brown v. Board of Education article which seems like a valid choice. CountryANDWestern (talk) 09:19, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

don't worry I already created it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Brown_v._Board_of_Education_II I am just looking for reliable sources Amapenguin (talk) 09:22, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

I wasn’t worried. I just think you may be wasting your time as, like I said, the information is already at the English Wikipedia at a valid location. CountryANDWestern (talk) 09:28, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Oh wait I forgot to tell you I need some attribution for the article Amapenguin (talk) 09:46, 12 May 2026 (UTC)