Wiki Loves Fashion 2024

Welcome to the Wikimedia contest Wiki Loves Fashion 2024

the sixth edition of the Wikimedia campaign to write or improve fashion-related articles
between September 6th - October 1st

What is Wiki Loves Fashion?

Street fashion 2019

Street Style in Down town Kampala, Uganda

London Fashion Week Men's January 2017

Young Women on Shopping Street - Sapporo - Hokkaido - Japan

Young man in 2010

Wiki Loves Fashion is a Wikimedia campaign for writing on Wikipedia and other wiki projects about model biographies, fashion design and fashion brands, clothes and clothing industry, notable dresses, history of fashion and ancient fashion, textiles, accessories, and other items related to the ancient and contemporary fashion industry. The 2023 edition is a multilingual online edit-a-thon that takes place offline and online for the spring/summer 2024 editions of important Fashion Weeks, from 18 September to 8 October 2023: New York (September 7 – 13), London (September 15 – 19), Milan (September 19 – 25) and Paris Fashion Week (September 25 – October 3).

Interested? Contact us

The campaign was launched by WikiDonne User Group during WikiDonne roadmap to write about fashion-related content. Are you interested in getting involved with Wiki Loves Fashion? Want to talk about any other kind of fashion content collaboration? Contact us at wikidonne gmail.com or on the discussion page!

Theme

Street style

Fashion weeks

New York Fashion Week 2024: Friday 6th - Wednesday 11th September
London Fashion Week 2024: Thursday 12th - Tuesday 17th September
Milan Fashion Week 2024: Tuesday 17th - Monday 23th September
Paris Fashion Week 2024: Monday 23th - Tuesday 1st October

Local projects

Italy

Wikipedia Event page (online): TBD

Macedonia

Event page:

TBD

Nederland

Event page: NL Wikipedia:Wikiproject/Fashion

United States

Event page:

TBD

When and where will happen?

The writing contest runs from 6th September 00:01 to 1st October 23:59 (UTC). The edit-a-thon will be essentially held online. Other activities (mainly the local ones or on other Wikimedia project like Wikibooks) can be carried out in person.

Who can join?

Wikimedians already registered who edit in any Wikimedia project language or new editors. If you are not yet registered, we suggest you to create a wiki account here (andf then sign you on the participants page).

How to participate?

Add you! Add your username on the participants list here.

Check the rules! Before starting, check the rules here.

Select an article! You can find suggested articles here.

Write or improve it! Start writing articles from scratch, translate it from other languages, or improve existing ones.

Sign it! Add the new or improved article to the results list.

What else?

The campaign is cross-wiki, so you can contribute to the event not only by writing articles on Wikipedia. You can create new Wikidata items, or upload on Commons photos released under free licenses on Commons. You can decide to write an article on Wikinews or add a new entry on Wikiquote. You can also choose to add categories, to do the "dirty work" or to teach someone how to edit the Wikimedia projects. Every single act is valuable.

Supported by

External links

NYFW.com, New York Fashion Week ufficial website
London Fashion Week, ufficial website
Milano Fashion Week, ufficial website
FHCM, Paris Fashion Week ufficial website