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Greetings folks. To express gratitude to Lithuania for supporting Taiwan, Wikipedians from Taiwan organized an editathon called “[Lithuania “Thanksgiving” Editorial Project](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lithuania_%22Thanksgiving%22_Editorial_Project)**”** on the Chinese Wikipedia last month. During the event around 100 articles about Lithuanian culture, history, geography, economics and politics were written by 25 participants ([complete list](https://fountain.toolforge.org/editathons/lep-2021-zh)). I myself rewrote the article “Lithuania” ([立陶宛](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AB%8B%E9%99%B6%E5%AE%9B)) among other 39 new articles. Some of us are still writing related articles after the event ended. We hope to improve and create contents about Lithuania on the Chinese Wikipedia, in order to introduce your fascinating culture to the Sinophone world.

**Ačiū,** **Lietuva!** As a Taiwanese living in the US, I became very interested in Lithuania after reading and writing these articles. I would love to learn the Lithuanian language, and certainly will visit your country after the pandemic.

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edit: I feel super honored for all your kind words and awards. Thank you so much. Here I would like to share some of the articles I wrote, from which I learned and related to the most:

1. “Lithuania” ([立陶宛](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AB%8B%E9%99%B6%E5%AE%9B)) : the longest article I’ve written on the Wikipedia so far. such profound history: the last European country Christianized, the most conserved Indo-European language, the first to crush the Soviet Regime.
2. “Kauno Tado Ivanausko zoologijos muziejus” ([塔達斯·伊瓦納斯卡斯動物學博物館](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/塔達斯·伊瓦納斯卡斯動物學博物館)): as a biology major I want to visit this place so badly.
3. “Tadas Ivanauskas” ([塔達斯·伊瓦納斯卡斯](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/塔達斯·伊瓦納斯卡斯)): While he self-identified as a Lithuanian, 2 of his brothers self-identified as Polish, and one as a Belarusian. The complicated identity bears much resemblance to Taiwan’s situation throughout our parents’ and our generations.
4. “Lietuvos vietinės kiaulės” ([立陶宛土產豬](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/立陶宛土產豬)): I personally love pigs. Adorable animals.
5. “Lietuvos partizanai” ([立陶宛游擊隊](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/立陶宛游击队)), “Lietuvos katalikų bažnyčios kronika” ([立陶宛天主教會記事](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/立陶宛天主教會記事)) and “Helsinkio susitarimų vykdymui remti Lietuvos visuomeninė grupė” ([立陶宛赫爾辛基小組](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/立陶宛赫爾辛基小組)): my full respect
6. “Apuolė” ([阿普奧萊](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/阿普奧萊)): very interesting to me as a history buff
7. “Raižių mečetė” ([賴日艾清真寺](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/賴日艾清真寺)): The Tatar/Muslim community in Lithuania was something I haven’t heard before.
8. “aguonų pienas” ([罌粟奶](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/罌粟奶)): is it good? does the white color come exclusively from poppy seed, or is milk added?
9. “Baltarusijos–Lietuvos valstybinė siena” ([白俄羅斯－立陶宛邊界](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/白俄羅斯－立陶宛邊界)): also wrote “2021 m. migrantų krizė Lietuvoje” ([2021年立陶宛移民危機](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021年立陶宛移民危機)) after the editathon. hope such a nasty act from a nasty government has stopped.

20 comments

  7. OMG! that’s impressive! We honestly like you guys so much since you guys are standing up to a bully that is known as China. Hope you guys will be independant one day!

  12. I always thought supporting Taiwan is the right thing to do as a matter of principle, but I never expected that such small acts of kindness towards a country halfway across the world would make that country so obsessed with ours. It’s the most wholesome thing I’ve seen in a long while.

    Maybe we should organize an editathon about Taiwan too?

  13. Thank you so much for sharing this 🙂 What an enormous effort, well done to everyone involved.

    In regards to point 8: it’s not bad, but it’s more of a tradition (I’ve never seen it being consumed on any other day than Christmas Eve). No milk is added, it’s just poppy seeds, water, and sugar/honey. As far as I know the color comes from the poppy seed oils being suspended in the water, sort of like Absinthe/Ouzo/Sambuca getting cloudy with water being added: oils are happily dissolved in alcohol, but drop out of the solution once the water is added. Since we only add water (no alcohol before Christmas), we get to the white/milky part from the start.

  14. who knew we could have found so many good friends, so far away from us. 🙂 you guys are awesome and its very surprising to us, how nice you guys can be. I wish, our great relationship will continue 🙂

  15. Thank you so much for your work!

    If you ever get a chance to go to Tado Ivanausko zoologijos muziejus try to use your major to enter the backrooms of the place. If the whole exhibition looks great, you will be amazed by the stuff that they DON’T show.

    I have never made aguonų pienas myself, but from the taste I guess it’s just pure poppies in water and sugar. Not my cup of tea, but a must to try on Christmas.

  16. 8. Aguonpienis itself doesn’t have much flavour, kinda like poppy seeds in a bagel. That’s why you add kūčiukai, they are made from sweet dough and soak up the aguonpienis. The white colour is from the seeds themselves, no extra milk, that’s a common misconception.

  17. Supporting Taiwan is the right thing to do. Sadly CCP pressure is too much and only some 15 cointries recognize Taiwan as a country.

    What you guys are doing is pretty cool tho.

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