Wikipedia talk:OLYMPICS

Wikilympians - New Toolforge project

Made this today, site link hosted on Wikimedia Toolforge here:

https://olympians.toolforge.org/

It's a real-time display (well, synced every 5 minutes) of all 153,412 known Olympians (defined as those who competed in at least one medal-winning event) along with Wikipedia and Wikidata metadata. You can filter them by name, sport, country, gender, medals, and -- most importantly -- whether or not the subject has an article or redirect on enwiki along with the size of the article.

Because all of the sync operations use Wikidata and Wikipedia SQL replica databases only, they can refresh the data quite fast so you can see your edits reflected on the list in real time. I imagine it could be helpful to see which Olympian articles need the most work (either need to be created or destubbed), and there's also a systemic bias tracking page highlighting which cross-categorizations need the most work.

The code is freely licensed as well on Toolforge Gitlab. Let me know if there's anything you'd want added or if this is helpful -- if others find it a useful resource maybe we could add a link on the main WikiProject page.

Thanks all, --Habst (talk) 01:34, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for creating this, because it pretty much solves the issue we had some time ago with those alphabetical order lists of Olympic athletes that generated a very long discussion here Haddad Maia fan (talk) 02:38, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

@Haddad Maia fan, thank you. As I created many of those list pages, I view this as a continuation of that effort. --Habst (talk) 21:37, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Chae Hong-nak

I finally got around to adding the sources Habst found to Chae Hong-nak's article, however I know very, very little about marathons and can't read Korean. I feel that what i've added is better than nothing, but I'd appreciate if someone could take a look over it and fix it up :) RossEvans19 (talk) 03:01, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

@RossEvans19, thank you, I agree your contribution was constructive and I admit I had forgotten about that subject. How did you translate the Naver News Library sources? As I don't know Korean and the site only shows non-copyable images of text, I had to use an image-to-text tool to get the Korean and then machine translation, which is difficult when trying to sort through hundreds of search matches. --Habst (talk) 21:35, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Ah, um, I didn't, I just took what you'd translated and added that lmao - thank you tho :) RossEvans19 (talk) 00:17, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Notability for "nation at the Olympics"-type articles?

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sports#Notability for "nation at the (year) Olympics"-type articles? ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 19:07, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Colors of the continents according to the rings of the Olympic flag

In the page National Olympic Committee I have just noticed in this image that Europe and Oceania are swapped with their colors. Europe is supposed to be blue and Oceania is supposed to be green just like the Olympic rings. Please change the image accordingly. Mkess300 (talk) 11:03, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Where in the article or the image does it say that the colour scheme directly matches the rings? Seems more like a stylistic choice to use the five ring colours to highlight the five map areas. Primefac (talk) 14:20, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

@Mkess300: See Olympic symbols#Olympic Rings, where we find Although the colors of the rings were later said to be representations of individual continents, Coubertin originally only meant the number of rings to "represent the five parts of the world now won over to Olympism." According to Coubertin, the colours of the rings, along with the white background, represented the colours of every competing country's flag at the time. also Olympic Charter#Chapter 1: The Olympic Movement and its Action which states Article 8: The Olympic symbol consists of five interlocking rings which, from left to right are blue, yellow, black, green and red. No mention of any meaning for the colours, or even for the number of rings. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:31, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

And either way, the Asian parts of Russia and Turkey, plus the Caucasus countries, are shown colored green as Europe is. Jeff in CA (talk) 21:25, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Commons files of sportspeople with Olympic medals by sport

Hi everyone, I am working on categorising Wikimedia Commons files that show Olympic medalists together with their Olympic medals, organised by sport. The aim is to group files where athletes are depicted with their medals, separated by their respective disciplines. For example, I have started building a structure for tennis players:

Tennis players with Olympic medals (Commons category)

The goal is to extend this system across all Olympic sports.

I have also created a parent category:Category:Sportspeople with Olympic medals by sport (Commons category)

Feedback or suggestions on the category structure would be very welcome. If anyone is also interested in helping expand and maintain the remaining categories and files, it would be appreciated. Haddad Maia fan (talk) 16:43, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

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China and Chinese Taipei's participation at the Olympics

There is a discussion about the timeline table of participation's structure. Which one looks better and provides a better information about the name changes? You are invited to my talk page and search for "China at the Olympics". Mkess300 (talk) 06:49, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

@Mkess300: Please don't expect people to carry out searches when it's so easy to provide a direct link to User talk:Mkess300#China at the Olympics. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:33, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Lee Gyeong-su#Requested move 29 May 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Lee Gyeong-su#Requested move 29 May 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 1isall (talk | contribs) 18:54, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Ladies' singles#Requested move 28 May 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Ladies' singles#Requested move 28 May 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 03:52, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Bump up coverage of Olympic/Paralympic Hall of Famers to “high priority”

This project should bump up coverage of national Olympic/Paralympic Hall of Famers to at least “medium priority”, if not “high”. A lot of their pages are marked “low priority”. If the Hall of Fame athletes, the greatest athletes of the olympics, are low priority for the project, priorities are wrong. ~2026-35019-01 (talk) 00:40, 16 June 2026 (UTC)