CEE/Newsletter/Newsroom/Russian Wiki Award 2025: Women Rise Above
- By: Anastasia Lvova
In the Russian-speaking community of 2024, women from Eastern Europe took leading positions in several nominations.
The Wiki Award was a tradition established by the Wikimedia RU, with ceremonies held from 2014 to 2022 during annual conferences. With the cessation of the organization’s activities, the community (particularly MBH) took over the initiative, summarizing outstanding annual achievements statistically on the project’s Village Pump.
Among the awardees are participants from the North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group (and many other representatives from Eastern Europe). Екатерина Борисова traditionally became the most active contributor to Wikivoyage for the seventh consecutive year, with 14,311 edits this time. Ekaterina hopes she will finally have worthy competitors in the future. Lvova was the most active Russian-speaking Wikipedian twice this year (personally and as a bot owner, with 117,691 and 272,469 edits, respectively). Furthermore, she was the most active Russian-speaking VRT participant for the third year in a row (likely, the Russian Wiki Award is the only existing recognition for VRT agents in the Wikimedia community). Unexpectedly, she also became the most active participant in the article merging and splitting project. Красный actively removed statuses from articles undeservingly listed as solid articles.
Among non-user group members, it is worth highlighting the contributions of Victoria, who finalized more quality articles status reviews than anyone else this year and in the entire history of featured articles, good articles, featured lists, and portals in the Russian Wikipedia. Additionally, Lapsy actively worked on assigning and removing solid article statuses.
The full list of awardees can be found on the Village Pump of Russian Wikipedia.