Wikipedia 'edit-a-thon' seeks to boost contents on media freedom and pluralism

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28 October 2016

An Edit-a-thon - Raúl Orozco/Wikimedia Commons CC SA 3.0

An edit-a-thon will take place in Belgrade on November 21st to boost the availability of accurate knowledge on media freedom in the largest open encyclopedia worldwide

As part of its action within the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom , OBC Transeuropa is organising on 21st November in Belgrade a Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon in cooperation with Wikimedia Serbia and with the support of Wikimedia Italia.

A portmanteau word of “edit” and “marathon”, Edit-a-thon is an organised editing event featuring a bottom-up collaborative experience of knowledge production, where editors work together to improve specific contents on Wikipedia.

Resource Centre

All the Wikipedia articles created in the frame of the Wiki4MediaFreedom initiative are available in the Resource Centre for Press and Media Freedom , a digital curation platform providing systematic access to curated contents related to media freedom and pluralism in Europe.

The Wiki4MediaFreedom event aims at fostering new alliances between media freedom activists, journalists and the Wikipedia and open knowledge communities to boost the availability of accurate knowledge on media freedom and pluralism-related issues in the largest open enciclopedia worldwide.

To this aim, the Belgrade edit-a-thon will gather media freedom activists, journalists, media experts and a group of experienced Wikipedia volunteers. For half-a-day they will work together editing articles related to some of the most concerning issues affecting the media systems in Europe today, namely: transparency of media ownership; media concentration; access to public information and self-censorship. Particular attention will be given to the media freedom situation in Serbia and in other South-East European countries.

The Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon will take place at the ImpactHub Belgrade (Makedonska 21) on Monday 21st November 2016, from 10am to 4pm. After a short introduction and a tutorial on Wikipedia editing processes, 4-5 hours of collaborative editing will follow, with experienced Wikipedia editors working side by side with participants to edit entries, verify sources and references, and fill missing information.

More info and registration

For more information: Wiki4MediaFreedom Registration is required: please, go to EventBrite

The edit-a-thon is a follow up to a GLAM project (“Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums”), a global Wikipedia initiative which helps cultural institutions to share their contents with Wikipedia and its many collaborative projects, implemented in 2015 by OBC Transeuropa in cooperation with Wikimedia Italia. Ultimately, it will contribute to the Wiki4MediaFreedom component of the Resource Centre on Media Freedom in Europe , adding to the work of the Resource Centre curators that regularly engage in Wikipedia to further disseminate its contents.

For more info, please contact vignola@balcanicaucaso.org.

This publication has been produced within the project European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, co-funded by the European Commission. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso and its partners and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. The project's page