Wikipedia's cyber fighters, resisting Russian propaganda, invite you to join their team

In the summer of 2020, Kyiv businessmen and activists launched the "Vykypatrol" project, where Ukrainians from all over the world resist Russian propaganda.

How to сообщает Censor.NET, project participants are called cybersoldiers. They create articles about Ukrainian in the main Wikipedias of the world. The guys are introducing Ukrainian topics, meanings and agenda to the countries of the EU, the USA and even the Russian Federation. In particular, the problems of the war in the east of Ukraine, cyberwar, economic blockade, etc. are updated. A separate area of ​​work is the destruction of Russian bot farms in the Ukrainian Wikipedia.

According to the initiators of the project, the editors of the Ukrainian Wikipedia were pushed to join the new project by the weakness of Ukrainian diplomacy and Russia's hybrid military aggression. Ukrainians from all over the world began to actively support the Vykypatrul movement in the summer.

"The core of the team includes 20 volunteers who write and translate articles in their spare time. These are very different people from the USA, Canada, South America and Ukraine, who have already earned their bread and butter, and then there is time for the information war, and what is more important, they understand the importance of the fight against propaganda," the project said.

Now cyber-fighters not only work on military and political topics, but also popularize Ukrainian composers on the English-language Wikipedia, publishing articles in English about talented composers and musicians from Ukraine.

They call on all those who have the opportunity to write articles in other languages ​​and those who wish to resist Russia in the information field to join this initiative. The website of the organization that created the project.

Over the past 2 months, Wikipatrol has created dozens of articles in the main Wikipedias of the world: English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian. In particular, these are articles about:

– Cyborgs of the Donetsk airport (in Russian, English, Spanish and in the process 5 more languages)

- Ukrainian top composers

– About the protest action in Belarus (in Polish for the allies of the Poles)

- Added a section about Ermak's change of state (in Russian, English)

– Roman Ratushny (defender of Protasov Yar from the building)

– Ukrainian Cyber ​​Alliance (in Russian, English and 2 more languages ​​in the process)

– Russian-Ukrainian cyber war (in German)

– Some other examples of Vikypatrol activity:

– International reaction to the Boeing 777 disaster in the Donetsk region (Russian wiki)

– Handziuk list (list of attacks on activists in Ukraine)

– Medical Battalion "Hospitaliers".