Projekt Kateryna improves objective Ukrainian history on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata in several languages.
The project is organised on this Wikipedia pages. The project is initiated by Kaj Arnö of Projekt Fredrika rf that has experience of systematically improving Swedish Finland on Wikipedia.
The suggested name Kateryna is a reference to the oil painting uk:Катерина - we suggest a female name, because there are enough men anyway, and Projekt with a k to emphasise the multilingual nature of the project.
Project description
editUkrainian nation
editWe argue that Wikipedia lacks an objective picture of the Ukrainian nation. Descriptions in most languages are distorted by the long-term effects of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union.
This project's focus is on Ukrainian history, culture and nation: textual contents, maps, pictures, other illustrations, links, categories, navigation bars, and other Wikipedia concepts.
Example
editsv:Ukraina is lacking in description of Ukraine's nationalism in the beginning of 1900:s, what it reacted against, who the Ukrainian authors and other actors were during the 1920s. And going further back in history, there is no deep analysis of the battle of Poltava, no mentioning of the loyalties of Mazepa still causing controversies up to this day. There is also no mentioning of the 1872 anti-Ukrainian legislation uk:Емський_указ or other root causes of Ukrainian nationalism.
The Projekt Fredrika method
editProjekt Fredrika has during the past years iteratively learnt to do theme analysis over multiple languages on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons with own quantitive tools (Fredrikas Lupp and Voronoi), and to implement improvements both at scale and at identified critical places utilising valid reference material - while respecting and cooperating with the Wiki-culture and -community.
Participants
editTodos
edit- Work in progress: an overview of top 100 most important, and most read articles about Ukraine in languages en, ru, de, uk, fr, pl, sv, fi, et with practical examples what needs to be corrected, and how to spread improvements over several languages.
- Todo: collect suitable sources for articles to be improved: official academic publications, and perhaps informal such as 10 popular misconceptions about Ukrainian history, debunked (kyivindependent.com)