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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...
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.
♪ (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.
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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"?
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)
♪ (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...
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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!
♪ (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...
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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.
♪ (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?
(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.
- 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.