The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has announced the launch of a campaign to correct articles devoted to the country in the Wikipedia Internet encyclopedia, which the Kiev authorities consider to be biased. This was announced on Wednesday by the press service of the Foreign Ministry.
The Wikimedia Ukraine public organization, the country's largest association of Wikipedia administrators, acts as a partner of the ministry in this endeavor.
The Foreign Ministry calls the campaign’s goal to counteract misinformation about Ukraine and disseminate appropriate information about the country in different languages. At the same time, the representative of the Foreign Ministry said that the campaign participants will make entries on Wikipedia on the so-called Russian aggression against Ukraine.
In particular, the agency will begin in May an online marathon called “The Month of Ukrainian Diplomacy”. Within a month, the authors of the Ukrainian-language Wikipedia will fill in the gaps and correct inaccuracies on the topics of "Russian aggression", Ukraine’s integration into the European Union and NATO, relations with other countries, activities in international organizations, as well as public diplomacy.
Ukrainian diplomats will correct Wikipedia in the languages of their host countries, the Foreign Ministry said.
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