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WikidataCon Awards, also known as...

WikidataCon Awards.

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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)

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(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.

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(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.

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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.

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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...

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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)

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(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)

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We're doing this for the first time,
so next year it will be...

more smooth.

Um... okay.

Yup.

Ta-daaa!
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(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...

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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!

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That was quick.

So...

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(soft giggles from the audience)

Newcomer-friendly is the next category,
and we have a winner in that category.

And the winner is...

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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.

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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.

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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.