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Wiki Loves Butterfly, a regional community project and international diplomatic achievement

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By bluerasberry

Wiki Loves Butterfly

Wiki Loves Butterfly is a Wikimedia community program to improve Wikimedia content about butterflies. There are lots of Wikimedia community programs on all sorts of topics around the world, and many of them operate in a way similar to how the organizers of Wiki Loves Butterfly have presented their program. Wiki Loves Butterfly is unusual for being a single program having many of the positive characteristics that the Wikimedia community values: the organizers are established the program as volunteers, it operates in multiple Wikimedia projects, it shares information in multiple languages, it is a partnership between multiple registered Wikimedia affiliate organizations, it is sharing regional information which no one other than local people could share, and it

Participants in the program contribute in different ways in different Wikimedia projects. Photographers share pictures of butterflies in Wikimedia Commons, writers develop various languages of Wikipedia articles in their own languages, taxonomy fans sort the species in Wikispecies and by identifying the species in the photos, Wikidata writers structure the data, archivists connect new photos with older archival prints and texts in Wikisource, and the opportunity is there for anyone to describe butterfly hiking trips in Wikivoyage.