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WikidataCon Awards, also known as...
WikidataCon Awards.
(data item Q numbers
continue in background)
Instance of Awards.
Award in Wikidata community.
Instance of Wikimedia Project Page.
Location... Urania...
Other sites... Commons category,
WikidataCon Award 2019,
also known as...
also known as...
Editing...
Ecosystem...
Community Building...
Newcomer-friendly...
Wikimedia Integration...
Outreach... Quality...
Languages...
Multimedia.
(applause)
♪ (upbeat piano music) ♪
(applause)
Welcome everyone to the very first
WikidataCon Award 2019.
It's so great that you're here.
(cheers and applause)
I have some friends who are actually not
at Wikimedia, that happens,
and I often tell them stories
about Wikimedia,
and somehow they all believe
that Wikimedia is something
like a never-ending party,
full of goals, awards, fun ideas,
amazing people--that's true, actually--
and new sticker designs every week.
(laughter)
I don't think that their image
of Wikimedia is going to change
after this award.
But, actually, seriously,
I think it's super important
that we celebrate together,
that we have fun together.
There's nothing more nice in the world
than being proud of each other
and actually acknowledge
the work that you do,
that all of you do here, together.
That's just so cool.
2019 was a year of Wikimedia Awards,
and the WikidataCon Award
is actually the little sister
of the Coolest Tool Award that took place
in Wikimania in Stockholm
for those who were there.
And some people
from the Wikidata community came to me
after the Coolest Tool Award,
and they were like,
"We should have this for Wikidata too.
We should have it at WikidataCon."
And here we are.
Second iteration, as you know,
if you iterate on things,
they can only get better,
so WikidataCon Award 2019!
A few weeks ago, we were asking
for nominations for this award,
for like your favorite projects,
no matter if it's a tool, initiative,
outreach activity.
Anything could be anything.
I just want to say thank you so much
from our side for sending us nominations
and actually describing
why this or that project is so cool
that it should win an award.
Really, thank you very much.
We are awarding projects today
because Wikimedia's all about
collaboration, right?
But behind the projects,
there are actually people,
it's the Wikidata community.
So think of the people
than the award of the projects.
Don't forget the people,
they're amazing and they're important.
But we award projects.
As said, we had a nomination process.
There was a Selection Committee;
they are all in the room,
Envel and Sjoerd and Amir and me,
and there were more people involved.
Actually, also non-Wikimedia people,
for example, my friend Moona,
who you will find out what she did later
in this award ceremony was also involved,
and Liam of course,
as the second host, ringmaster on stage
who will talk a lot this evening.
And Lea Laqua, who did
the communication, as always
and just was awesome and helped us.
We are awarding projects
in nine different categories:
Editing, Community Building, Ecosystem,
Newcomer-friendly,
Wikimedia Integration, Outreach,
Quality, Languages, Multimedia.
If you have listened to the introduction
that you just see or hear,
and maybe have even written down
some of the Q numbers,
you will be able to go on the WikidataCon
Tourist Tour on Sunday, or on Monday,
and find what is on this map.
But I'm not going to show you longer.
Yeah... sorry, I spoiled the next slide.
It's actually music from Lucas
who's also involved, our amazing pianist.
♪ (fun piano music) ♪
(applause)
And we come to the very first
award category.
It's, of course, Editing,
because if we don't edit, no data,
no Wikidata.
So this is like the source of everything.
I'm very, very happy to announce
this year's winner
in the category Editing.
♪ (dramatic piano music) ♪
Oh, sorry...
(piano chords)
(laughter)
OpenRefine!
(cheers and applause)
So, I know there is at least one person
who contributed to OpenRefine
in the audience.
Can you wave? You don't have
to come up on stage, but wave.
And everyone else who did something.
Wave. Woo-hoo!
(applause)
Thank you so much.
Okay, I mean, we just can't say
OpenRefine is cool
and everyone believes it,
and we can go on.
But actually, maybe some of you don't know
what OpenRefine actually does.
So for each award,
we also have a project description.
I'm handing now over to Liam
who's going to walk you
through the project.
Yeah.
So the great irony of me,
describing one of the most
technically clever tools
available in the Wikiverse...
(laughter)
...to one of the most
well-informed audiences
about the Wikiverse.
But if you have used--
we've seen some of the people
in the audience
who have been building OpenRefine.
Who in this audience
has utilized OpenRefine?
Great! Okay. You don't need to know.
For the benefit of the tape
and for the benefit of people
who have not personally
utilized this software--
while we provide the prize
behind the scenes here--
the importance of this tool is that
it allows to take messy data and clean it
to use for uploading or downloading,
or connecting to Wikidata
and other things, but especially Wikidata.
Originally, a Google project
that is now being turned into
a community-led project
for maintenance and of messy data.
The jury decided this deserved the award
for Editing for two primary criteria.
One, for the reconciliation function.
It's one thing to clean messy data
for anyone's use,
but the ability to then connect it
to the Wikidata items
to provide the reconciliation service.
Does this mean "that thing"?
Does this mean "that thing"?
Yes, no, or maybe.
It's extraordinarily important
for then taking your personal dataset
and connecting it
to the wider Wikidata universe,
semi-autonomously.
They also describe
that the editing functions,
the ability to export tabular data
and then use it directly
or into quick statements
was incredibly useful and powerful.
And for those reasons,
the Committee decided that OpenRefine
deserves the Editing Award
for the inaugural Wikidata Awards.
(applause)
And so for the actual presentation
of the award itself,
given this is a project on Wiki...
We are going to see now, live...
Oh, wait a minute...
Sorry... it's just... we need it because--
As you see, nothing is here.
(soft giggles)
- But...
- (Liam) Hopefully, this works.
(Birgit) I hope it works.
(Liam) If you refresh the page...
(Birgit) Oh... we have a bug,
I think, in the process?
(laughter)
(Birgit) Imagine that the award
is already here on the page.
(laughter)
(applause)
Go back and describe the picture.
Okay. So, it will happen soon.
We'll check later in the day.
(laughter)
But I can show you something here.
So that map that was shown earlier
was significant
for the purposes of the award
because this is... you did the work
of taking these photographs,
so you should describe what the award is.
So, Wikidata is in our hearts, right?
But for a moment, last Sunday evening,
it was also in a very public space
[on there] in Berlin,
So we went through the streets,
not to random buildings
but to specific buildings--
which ones you need to find out.
It's an interactive award,
so it's kind of a riddle for you.
I mean, this one is probably obvious
that it's Technikmuseum,
but I can promise you
the others are not that easy.
And so we projected it to the walls
of the buildings that we found
kind of fit the category
the awards get awarded in,
and had it for a moment
in the public space
and took a photo of that.
That's the story of the award.
Touching, right?
(laughter)
Well, the idea is we provide the "image,"
the one-time-only piece of public ad,
temporary public ad
as the image on the project page.
- That's the award.
- That's the award.
- Are we there already?
- Is it loaded?
- Okay.
- Nope.
Okay. So just use your imagination,
and we go on to the next...
I'm sure you have it.
- Oh, the Wi-Fi is off.
- (man) No.
- Ours? Yeah, it's not us.
- That's the Internet.
It's not our task.
- We just go, right?
- Yeah.
Okay, cool. Music.
♪ (slow piano music) ♪
Oh, no, wait. Wrong direction...
Okay. Other than editing,
what is important for Wikidata
Community Building?
Any activity that helps to develop
or to strengthen a community,
and we're like way, way...
way, way more activities
that you can possibly award in the world.
But in the end,
there's a winner for this year.
And the winner is...
♪ (dramatic piano music) ♪
WikiProject India!
(cheers and applause)
Congratulations.
I think maybe
there are people in the room.
Can you wave if you are here?
Yay! Cool!
(applause)
Thank you so much. Congratulations!
And I'm handing it over to you, I guess.
We can also try the photo thing again?
Maybe, maybe?
- No.
- Okay, no.
That was a definite "no" for me.
So, while we upload that file to Commons
and eventually place it
on the project page itself
as the award, it's the trophy,
for the project page,
Wikiproject India, which in my opinion,
has the coolest logo award.
Does anyone...
are there any other
Wikiprojects in Wikidata
that utilize the national flag logo
with the Wikidata bars?
I mean, that's pretty cool.
So, Wikidata Project India
as would be, hopefully, fairly evident
is about for and by the Indian community,
the languages of the Indian sub-continent
and supporting the content
and the contributors
to that geography culture history.
The jury decided
that this was particularly
worthy of this award.
This community was
particularly worthy of this award
because of its ability to share skills
to and among each other,
the providing offline groups
to run technical workshops,
to run editathons,
to run upload activities,
label translation days,
various kinds of projects
in real life and online
to build a community
that provides skills to each other
and builds stability and community
locally is fantastic,
is worthy of attention
for its community communication
among itself and to the wider Wikiverse
through a regular newsletter
and active accounts on social media,
and for the amount of content
that they have produced
for and by, and about their subject area.
This is an image, also from Commons,
of one period of time
changes data ingestion
about a particular state, West Bengal.
Some of the example statistics
there in the bottom:
50 India properties,
specifically 13,000 individual hospitals
now have Wikidata items about them.
So there's been an incredible increase
in the quality and the quantity
of content about India,
thanks largely to this community.
(audience softly cheers)
Congratulations.
(applause)
♪ (dramatic piano music) ♪
(Birgit) Okay.
So, let's have a look again,
WikiProject India.
(audience giggling)
I've seen it. I actually looked at
OpenRefine a second ago,
it's already there.
If you want to go back in history
and look in Wikidata.
You go over the...
There's a tab there. Open the tab.
Which tab?
Oh, no...
Oh, okay.
Ta-da! Yoo-hoo!
(applause)
♪ (short piano chord) ♪
We're doing this for the first time,
so next year it will be...
more smooth.
Um... okay.
Yup.
Ta-daaa!
♪ (short piano chords) ♪
(applause)
Alright.
So, the next category
is for category Ecosystem.
That's the word
that we often use for anything...
that shows how connected Wikidata is
in the world with other projects,
partners, and so on.
I think it's actually
a great word. I like it.
Ecosystem, it sounds nice.
And as in every other category,
we have a winner here for this year.
And the winner is...
♪ (dramatic piano music) ♪
Sum of All Paintings!
(applause)
Okay, you are also here.
Can you wave so that people can see you?
(cheers and applause)
Okay. Let's have a deeper look
into Sum of All Paintings.
While we upload the file.
The files themselves,
the buildings themselves
are significant to the category,
but to find out why,
you might have to ask later.
Sum of All Paintings, SoAP,
does not have a logo of its own
so these are for Commons pictures
that depict soap bubbles...
(laughter)
...of many.
A surprisingly large number of paintings
about soap and soap bubbles.
I kid you not.
So, Sum of All Paintings
was the brainchild
to create a Wikidata item
about every notable painting.
Notable in the context of
is hung in a public gallery,
a major gallery, or is painted by a person
who is known as a famous painter.
Not every painting that has ever existed,
but every notable painting.
This has produced lots of work lists
that have resulted from that
and lots of side projects around that,
as in Ecosystem.
So, every painter, every collection.
What made this project cool
from the perspective of the jury
was the scale of the leadership,
of the quality, and of the impact.
These are some of the demonstrations
of the work lists,
demonstration of the content.
Don't expect to read this.
It's scrolling through quickly
to demonstrate the sheer volume
of work behind it,
the leadership, the tools,
the processes, the workflows,
this you might recognize
has now been turned into [integravity]
which is a tool usable by other projects
for their workflow management
and quality assessment criteria.
The consistently high standard
of the items at the upload stage
and also at the mass upload stage,
and then also the individual manual,
careful work to curate items
at an individual
and as a handcrafted list level.
So it really shows the breadth
of quality and quantity
of the Wikidata ecosystem,
and the impact Sum of All Paintings
has proven incredibly important
for demonstrating that GLAM datasets
can work with each other,
at scale and openly.
The interoperability of Open Glam
as demonstrable by Sum of All Paintings
has improved the viability
and the light bulb moment
for so many people in the cultural sector
that the jury decided
this won the award for Ecosystem.
(applause)
Yoo-hoo! It's already there!
Congratulations!
♪ (short piano chord) ♪
That was quick.
So...
♪ (fun piano music) ♪
(soft giggles from the audience)
Newcomer-friendly is the next category,
and we have a winner in that category.
And the winner is...
♪ (dramatic piano music) ♪
Ateliers Wikidata à Paris.
(cheers and applause)
Congratulations!
(applause)
People who are involved
in Ateliers Wikidata à Paris,
please wave that we can see you.
Cool! Thank you.
(applause)
So there's actually a fun story
what happened
when we were trying to find a good spot
to project Ateliers Wikidata à Paris
against the walls
of a certain building in Berlin.
We were like trying
and holding up a projector,
and suddenly a person approached us
and maybe you are watching,
it was really nice to meet you.
So the person approached us and said,
"Oh! I just edited Wikidata yesterday."
And we were like, "Oh, that's great.
You didn't see anything, okay?"
(laughter)
And I think he didn't reveal
the secret, that's really nice.
It was really nice to meet you. Thank you.
But just as a tip,
if you ever plan a secret Wikidata mission
and no one should know,
be aware that Wikidata's editors
are everywhere
and you would not think, right?
So it can happen anytime.
Okay.
Let's have a look.
(Liam) I'm sorry...
(Birgit laughs)
The Wikidata Ateliers à Paris is a series
of newcomer-friendly workshops,
introductory workshops
at the Wikimedia France office in Paris
that have been held over several years
on a consistent schedule
to build a community
to be a welcoming home
for a large city,
to slowly grow
and steadily invite new people
and bring them into our family.
The jury decided that this was worthy
of particular mention
of the various kinds
of outreach to newcomers
and newbies across the Wikiverse...
there we have the plushy matching.
...because of its consistency.
So there are lots of outreach activities
that have happened
for newcomers across Wikimedia
and across Wikidata in particular.
But this one has been going for years.
That is quite impressive...
to keep working at something like that,
and equally, obviously,
for its welcoming atmosphere
and consistently welcoming
atmosphere over that time.
The Newcomer-friendly award
goes to a project
that has demonstrated its friendliness
to newcomers, quite naturally.
So, the award is now...
Take a look, take a look.
(cheers and applause)
...on the topic page.
(applause)
All of these awards are, of course,
going onto the top front corner
of these project pages right now.
Feel free to move them
and place them where else you want,
but for the moment,
we're just stamping them
in the front corner of the Wikipage.
Alright.
♪ (happy piano music) ♪
Wikimedia Integration
is our next category.
We have some examples today
in the birthday presents
that would also fit under this category,
Wikimedia Integration
and many, many other projects
and approaches.
And also here, we have
the winner for this year.
♪ (dramatic piano music) ♪
Wikidata Infobox on Commons!
(applause)
Yeah. Thank you, Mike.
(laughter)
Yeah, it was one of the most
difficult photos to take
because this is a window,
as you can see, a glass window.
But we kind of fitted, maybe not to...
it fitted to the category,
maybe not to Wikidata Infobox
on Commons so much,
but it fitted to the category.
And thank you very much,
and we are having a deeper look
into what actually Wikidata's
Infobox on Commons does.
Yeah.
So, as any of you who were here
for the birthday presents
will have heard this,
has since been improved and expanded
in terms of Wikidata on Commons.
But the jury found that this was
particularly important and noteworthy
for the Integration category.
Wikidata Infobox on Commons
is the template
that allows you to put
a Wikipedia-like box of structured data
on the category about that thing
on Wikimedia Commons.
Most important, because it's multilingual.
It's the first time we've really been able
to show Commons is a multilingual project
because it works in all languages
with one template.
This is one of Mike's model examples
for the project Telescopes.
The importance of the project...
being the complexity.
It's hard to make a screenshot
of a long infobox.
(laughter)
So the jury found this project
was particularly useful
for Wikidata integration
for three main criteria.
One is the flexibility.
It's the fact that this one template
works with over 300 properties
and can pull them in...
with one field.
The scale of this single tool
was the second criteria
the jury found really important.
That this is used
across two and a half million
categories on Commons,
demonstrates that it is useful
to such a huge proportion
of one of the most utilized
sister projects in the Wikiverse.
And that you can pull together
these two projects
to such a high degree of connectivity
at such a high scale
is a fantastic demonstration.
And demonstration
proof to Wikimedia Commons
and to the rest of the Wikimedia projects
that Wikidata can serve information
that is useful, that is multilingual,
that is available right now.
Arguably, first and best,
in terms of demonstrations
that Wikidata, as a service delivery,
as a support for the other projects
has shown this
to the non-Wikidata
community of Wikimedia
most successfully.
So, for that, we give you an award.
(applause)
Soon... we'll give you an award soon.
Ah, here it is.
Of course, it is below the infobox.
The infobox is long, right?
It's a long infobox.
And this image manages to combine
Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons,
WikidataCon, Wikimedia, Category--
six terms of art in the one image.
♪ (piano chord) ♪
(man) When the award is added
to the Wikidata item,
it will appear in the infobox.
Ooh, [meta].
(laughter)
(man) The Wikidata item.
(laughter)
(man) I barely like data.
Mike.
(Mike) The infobox is based on [a poem]
written by [Doug Taylor], [Use of Access].
He deserves a lot of the credit for that.
And all the feedback that comes to me
is being given to the Infobox.
Whenever something's not quite right,
people will come and say that,
and that's incredibly useful.
So thank you for anyone who has done that.
(Birgit) Woo-hoo!
(applause)
Yeah, we wish to reemphasize
for this award and for all awards,
they're often in some individual people
who have done a lot of visible work
for which they deserve credit.
But there's also a lot of people
who have done a lot of pieces of work,
the long tail of all Wikimedia work,
and all the feedback
provided by users around
in more or less formal ways,
all of which deserves some credit
for bringing these projects to fruition.
- This is why we award projects...
- Not people.
...not people.
But please still feel awarded,
Mike and others.
♪ (fun piano music) ♪
- Oh...
- I was just getting in.
Yeah. It was good.
It was actually really nice.
It could have gone on for longer.
Next category is Outreach, very important.
We want to grow and become more people
and connect to each other.
Also here, we have a lot of activities
that would deserve recognition
and the Committee decided for one project
to be the winner for this year.
♪ (dramatic piano music) ♪
(audience cheering)
Wikidata Lab!
(applause)
And of course, when you want to start
an outreach project,
you always go to the main train station,
take a train, and start the outreach work.
Yeah, thank you very much.
Are you in the room?
Is someone in the room? Woo-hoo!
(applause)
Also, to all your friends
who are not in the room,
please on Twitter, Telegram, Wiki,
any letter, traditional letter,
anything you can think of...
and I hand over to Liam again.
So, the Wikidata Lab... Wikidata Lab?
(laughter)
- (man) [How did you name that?]
- I forget.
The Wikidata Lab.
This is a series of thematic edit-a-thons
and presentations
at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
Monthly meetings
which have brought together researchers--
so academics, people
in the professional sectors like GLAM,
students, and Wikimedians
who might be now or might formerly be
in any of those categories,
to work together, to learn from each other
and share their experiences
in a regular project,
a regular community forum.
The jury found this project
particularly worthy
for recognition in Outreach
because of its sustainability.
So it has been, like some
of the other prizes this evening,
has been running for a number of years,
has run regular activities
over that period of time
on different topics.
The consistency of that outreach work
is significant.
The practicality of project
has been noted.
So that is the attempt to provide skills,
practical skills to people
in this particular community,
this particular language
that is shareable among
that wider community of the language,
so it's one city, but across
an entire language community,
which is on several continents,
and the focus on bringing people
from different Wikimedia projects,
not just talking to Wikidata people,
but talking to Wikipedia people,
to Commons people, Wikisource people,
and connecting each other
with these new skills
about how Wikidata can be helpful to them,
particularly for,
as the nomination statement
also pointed out,
to focus on a Global South community
in doing that work.
This is not people in the office
in America or Germany,
this is people in the community
working to share skills to each other.
Finally, the integration, as mentioned.
The work across different parts
of the Wikimedia ecosystem
has made Wikidata highly accepted,
adopted, and integrated
across the Portuguese Wikimedia projects
in a way that is notable
compared to some of the other large
language communities.
This is a screenshot
of the YouTube channel
of all of the videos from this series.
They're all available,
they're all live-streamed,
they've all been shared on Commons
and YouTube, and various platforms.
So, the ability to then send
that information to other communities
was part of the design of this project.
It's not just for São Paulo,
not just for the students,
or not only for the students,
but for the wider community.
So, for that, the jury has declared
Wikidata Lab the winner.
(applause)
Which we placed on the top page
of the item about the project.
Give them the card,
edit the YouTube channel.
- Or is that...
- Yet...
(Birgit) Yet.
(Liam) So, thank you.
♪ (fun piano music) ♪
Woo-hoo!
(cheers and applause)
I just say quality... quality.
Our next category, Quality.
Anything that helps in improving
the quality of Wkidata's data...
- Wikidata's data?
- Wikidata's?
Wikidata's data?
(laughter)
Wikidata's data?
Wikidata's data?
(laughter)
I should know, actually.
I work for Wikimedia Russia.
But I don't remember.
I think we said, "Wikidata."
But maybe only on the third floor?
Okay... Quality...
We have a clear winner here.
♪ (dramatic piano music) ♪
I'm looking for the winner...
I think I've seen him somewhere here.
It's a bit hard to see.
(cheers and applause)
The winner is Mix'n'match!
And the main contributor behind that
is in the 1, 2, 3, 4th row, Magnus.
Yeah... let's look into it, right?
- Mix'n'match...
- Mix'n'match.
So we have the creator of Mix'n'match.
Has anyone in the room used Mix'n'match?
(laughter)
It's an influential project.
This is a service which allows you
to report authority-control lists,
lists of vocabularies
from external providers of a list of...
controlled vocabularies
and connect them, match them
to Wikidata items, and say, "Yes,
this over in that external repository
is that in our repository."
In an automated,
semi-automated manual approach,
game approach, various methods
of achieving that matching process.
Create new items,
if it doesn't exist already,
reject the item if it's not relevant
to Wikidata at all.
The jury is particularly impressed
by this project for the Quality award
because it is fundamental now
to how Wikidata works.
Introduced in 2003,
Mix'n'match became core.
Who would consider Mix'n'match
to be a standard part
of their Wikidata workflow
on almost a daily basis?
A large proportion of the audience.
(laughter)
The influential work of Mix'n'match
is also noted for this Quality award
because of its ability to make wide
and deep connections
of our collections of content
and vocabularies
to external...
many external vocabulary lists,
controlled lists,
to connect them and make
what has been termed Wikidata,
termed "the Internet's duct tape,"
holding all of these disparate systems
that have their own authority lists
but don't talk to each other,
and we're able to connect
them all to each other.
Another description which I heard recently
was the Wood Wide Web,
as in the mycelial network--
the root structure underneath the soil
of the forest that is the Internet
connecting all of the forest together.
Mix'n'match has become
so fundamental to Wikidata,
which has made Wikidata so fundamental
to the architecture of the Internet.
For that, we award it the Quality award.
(quiet laughter)
For that, we will award the Quality award.
(laughter)
Yeah, congratulations.
(applause)
♪ (fun piano music) ♪
(Birgit) Thank you.
(applause)
So as you all know,
this conference has the theme:
Languages, Wikidata Languages.
And so, that's why we also have
a category Languages--
anything that helps to increase
multilingual content and so on, and so on,
in the category Languages.
♪ (dramatic piano music) ♪
(applause)
Wikidata Menu Challenge!
We'll talk more about it.
Let's talk about it.
Alright, let's look at Menu Challenge.
Do we have anyone who helped create
Menu Challenge here in the audience?
No? Yes? We have one?
Do we have anyone who was a participant
in either of the rounds
of the Menu Challenge?
A couple here in the audience. Excellent.
So the Wikidata Menu Challenge #tastydata,
is a Wikidata label campaign/competition
that has been run a couple of times
over the years.
This is a competition to take a list
of a fixed vocabulary list about food
and to self-assigned points
for translating labels, descriptions,
audio files, photographs
about those food items.
Both of these works were coordinated
out of Wikimedia Sweden,
both of these were related
to Swedish events.
One was a food festival,
where the eventual translations got placed
as labels at the food festival
around the park.
And again, more recently,
Wikimania in Stockholm,
just a couple of months ago.
The jury found this project
particularly worthwhile,
worthy of noting for the Language category
because of its combination
in real life and online work
to bring Wikidata out
into the restaurant app
into the park and the field
and to connect the enjoyableness
of food editing and fun
and put them into one package.
Many projects and competitions
and events happened
entirely behind the computer.
This as a language campaign
is notable for that connectivity
to being out and sharing food together.
There's nothing more international
and multilingual
than the sharing of food
and sharing of food stories
and culture around food.
Multilingualism,
obviously for the language prize,
was the other criteria
that the jury noted in particular,
highlighting how Wikidata
is our multilingual project
in such a fundamental way
by using core vocabulary
relevant to so many cultures
about such important topics
that can then be taken forward and used.
Replicability was the third criteria
that was important for the jury.
The fact that this can be created quickly,
that a community can build around
this competition quickly.
It can be run easily, cheaply,
minimal infrastructure
to create a useful outcome
beyond possibly the scope
that you were originally hoping.
So the ease of use and the ease
of reuse by different people
for different activities outside food
and outside Sweden, if you want,
was notable.
This is the list from
Wikimania Stockholm recently,
and many people in this audience
were participants in that,
sharing images, sharing their own words
and the translations of those words
in their home language.
So, for that, the jury has awarded
the Languages prize.
And there we go.
(applause)
♪ (calm piano music) ♪
(Birgit) Unfortunately, we are already
at the end of our award.
This is the last category.
(audience) Oh!
But this is about Multimedia.
Multimedia is actually pretty cool.
(audience) Mmm.
And we have the winner here.
(laughter)
♪ (dramatic piano music) ♪
And the winner is...
- (man) ISA!
- ISA!
(cheers and applause)
With the most arty image, we hope.
So, yeah, I hope you can still read it
but it's ISA, congratulations.
Are you in the room? Anyone?
- Over there.
- Yoo-hoo!
(applause)
Congratulations!
Okay. It's yours.
So, ISA for the Multimedia award,
on a bridge girder.
Has anyone in the audience
used or been involved
in one of the ISA campaigns?
Half the audience here?
For a relatively new project,
that's really quite impressive.
This is one of the first projects
to utilize Structured Data on Commons,
as a third-party, built on top
of Structured Data on Commons.
which itself is quite new,
so the ability to then produce new games
on top of it is fantastic.
ISA is a multilingual mobile-oriented,
also desktop project tool game
to add structured data to Commons,
quickly, easily and fun
in a campaign environment.
The jury found this particularly cool.
This is a demonstration
of how to go about it.
So you choose a campaign
from the homepage.
You can see there the highlights
of who is the most active user,
or you can see potentially
different countries
or different categories
within that competition.
So you can select your category.
This is for public arts
in Wikilabs Africa.
It gives you an image,
you add it to Depicts, statement.
You can declare it to be prominent
within the field, within the image itself,
add the other ones that
might not be quite so prominent,
and Save.
And that takes you directly across to...
takes those Depicts statements
and put them immediately in Commons
right there on the structured data tab.
Mark this as Prominent, if you want.
So, really easy interface,
really fun way
to take a particular section
of your campaign.
The collaboration
between different communities
or different parts of the
Wikidata community
was important for the jury.
So, Histropedia, Wiki in Africa,
and the Structured Data on Commons teams
worked together to help support this
to demonstrate
that mobile-friendly
campaign/competition programs
could be built and could be fun
on Structured Data on Commons
and that it's scalable,
that you can use this, not just for that
one activity for Wikilabs Africa,
but as you can see in the original,
on the front page,
there's lots of campaigns already
and you can just add your own
for your community's project
and run a competition
straight away if you want.
And for that, the jury decided
to award the Multimedia award to ISA.
(applause)
♪ (piano music similar
to Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley) ♪
(applause)
As said in the beginning,
there are way more cool projects out there
that we could award of the Committee,
and also in summer
when the Coolest Tool Award was over,
several people feedbacked.
That was actually great,
but it would also be great to have
an Honorable Mention section.
And as this award is the next award,
we decided to have
an Honorable Mention section
also because we felt less bad,
and it made us feel better
because we could actually
secretly award more projects
when we allowed ourselves to award.
Yeah... and let's have a look
into those projects.
I think you need a second microphone?
Is there a second microphone
somewhere in the room?
Okay, wait. There's someone
with another one.
Thank you.
- Okay, I think that makes it easier.
- Testing, testing.
Test, test, test.
So, in an Honorable Mentions category--
of which there is one category--
DataDrainer.
This allows you to delete content
in clean-up activities.
(Birgit) Histropedia. Everyone knows it.
You can explore history across time,
subjects and events.
(Liam) And Mbabel tool.
This lets you generate narrative stubs
based on Wikidata
quickly, easily, faster.
(Birgit) Petscan, also known
as the "Swiss knife"
among Wikimedia's query tools.
(Liam) They're quite indefinable.
It actually does all the things.
Pywikibot, a library of scripts
that is used across so many tools
and so many projects
to help do mass editing activities.
(Birgit) Quickstatements, that already won
the Coolest Tool award
in summer, 2019.
- That's it.
- Congratulations.
- Congratulations.
- If you're in the room, raise your hand--
(applause)
We don't have a building
on which to project all of those names
at the same time.
But all buildings belong
to the Honorable Mention projects, right?
- All of the buildings that belong to you.
- All of the buildings...
- Yes.
- Yeah, good.
(Birgit laughs)
(Birgit) Okay, we are at
the very end of the awards...
(Pianist) Can I make this a longer one
or do you still have something to say?
(laughter)
(Birgit) I think I want to say thank you
and I will show people the credits
and then there is a slide
with all the images on it.
So you can make a longer run, I think.
♪ (Scott Joplin, "Stoptime Rag") ♪
(cheers and applause)
(Liam) And that's all there is
for the awards.
Thank you for attending.