Wikimedia Community User Group Eurovision

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Wikimedia Eurovision is a community user group focused on the Eurovision Song Contest and associated events, currently in formation.

Objectives

These objectives are presently only place holders for the actual objectives that will be agreed on as soon as the founding members of this user group have discussed these among themselves and with other interested Wikimedians.

To bring together Wikimedians interested in improving Wikimedia projects with content about the Eurovision Song Contest and associated events.
To support Wikimedians in sharing more information across the Wikimedia projects on the Eurovision Song Contest.
To explore other ways to bring Wikimedia and the Eurovision closer to each other.

Founding members

User:Magalia (Poland)
User:ToniSant (Malta + UK)
User:Wojciech Pędzich (Poland)

Consultant

User:BKlen-CEEhub (Croatia)

Activities

As a first activity, User:Wojciech Pędzich was an officially accredited photographer at Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden, through support from Wikimedia Poland and TVP.

Other activities, including edit-a-thons and meetups, will follow shortly, according to feedback from interested Wikimedians and others.

Interested in participating

If you are interested in joining this user group (in formation) please list your username below along with a few words about your interest/s in Eurovision generally or specifically.

--Rina.sl (talk) 17:10, 21 September 2024 (UTC). I'm a Ukrainian Wikipedian and a huge Eurovision fan. I'm watching Eurovision all my life, since I remember myself (so, it's around from 2004). Actually Eurovision helped me a lot to learn the map of Europe, capital cities, flags, international relationships between countries, economy, spoken languages of the country and so one. And I'm very grateful for my parents for sharing the Eurovision love with me. One of my brightest childhood memories is about watching Eurovision together with parents. That year I was a small child, might be studying in the primary school. My parents were trying to predict which country will give 12 points to which. And they couldn't remember the neighbour country, so my father was searching for the pocket atlas in the room and the rest of the voting ceremony that year we were watching holding the map of Europe in our hands. That moment gave me a huge wish to study geography and so one, as I mentioned above. I continue watching Eurovision right now as well. My family and friends are living in different cities and countries now and we have lost connection woth some of them, but when the Eurovision comes - we always chat and discuss each performance. As a Eurovision fan, I read a lot of news and interviews about each singer, watch national selections and bloggers reviews. Also during the Eurovision active time and during the CEE spring competition usually I create and update actively articles about Eurovision topic in Ukrainian. I will be happy to be a part of the group of Eurovision fans Wikimedians and I'll try to support actively the group activities.[reply]
--Zblace (talk) 11:30, 22 September 2024 (UTC) I am former TV reporter for Croatian TV for the field of media culture/arts/activism (TV program 'Transfer') and interested in making EU public broadacasters donating content to commons.[reply]
--Lasks (talk) 18:45, 22 September 2024 (UTC). I am Latvian Wikipedian who mostly make articles and edit about Eurovision Song Contests. I'm Eurovision fan since 2008 and from that year I haven't missed any Eurovsion contest.[reply]
--Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 14:42, 23 September 2024 (UTC) Italian Wikipedian here, of course really interested in being part of the group. Huge ESC nerd since Italy's re-entry in the contest.[reply]
NikosLikomitros (talk) 15:27, 14 October 2024 (UTC) Greek Wikimedian. I have written articles about Eurovision topics for years from time to time. I watch Eurovision from around 2012, and I watch it annually since then.[reply]
--Rita I am part of the Albanian Language UG and I want to include the participation of the Albanian wikimedia community as well. Example: organizing edit-a-thons around Eurovision in SQ.
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Contact

Please feel free to comment on the talk page or contact any of the founding members listed above on wiki.