Volha Sitnik

Volha Henadzyeuna Sitnik (born 24 January 1983) is a Belarusian activist and Wikipedian. She is an administrator of the Belarusian Wikipedia in its official orthography. She has contributed thousands of articles and hundreds of thousands of edits. Since April 2025, she has been detained multiple times and, together with other Wikipedians, has been implicated in an unspecified criminal case. She has been recognized as a political prisoner by human rights organizations.

Biography She was born and raised in Slutsk. She attended Secondary School No. 10 named after S. F. Rubanau. In 2005, she graduated from the Faculty of Information Technology and Robotics, BNTU with a degree in Robotics.

She has been actively editing Wikipedia since 2009 under the pseudonym "Хомелка" (Khomelka). In 2010, she became an administrator of the Belarusian Wikipedia. She mainly writes about the history and culture of Belarus, prominent figures, architectural monuments, and Belarusian flora and fauna. She represented the Belarusian Wikipedia at Wikimania 2014 in London. The nature of the charges remains unknown. Sitnik is part of a criminal case involving other administrators of the Belarusian Wikipedia who were imprisoned. In June 2025, various messages about searching for photographers for protest events were sent in diaspora Telegram chats from Volha's account, which had been seized by security forces.

In December 2025 she was released from pre-trial detention, having been sentenced to house arrest.

Personal life She is married.