Vinner Wikidata sprint

För en månad sedan var jag tillsammans med Albin Larsson, Andrew Lih och Nicolas Vigneron med i University of New Brunswicks Data Sprint, som var en “gren” i deras Data Challenge. Vi kallade laget Qutedata, en hommage till Q-numren på Wikidata och Wikimedia Cuteness Association.

Datasprintet bestod av två delar, en frågedel och en berättardel. I frågedelen ställdes 21 frågor som skulle besvaras med en Wikidata query. Själva svaret var egentligen ointressant, det intressanta var hur frågan var skriven och det som lämnades in var en länk till frågan. Berättardelen skulle ha en serie sammahängande frågor, där vi fokuserade på folk i New Brunswick (presentation). Vardera del stod för 50% av resultatet.

Det hela gick tydligen bra för vårt lag vann!

Igår kom äntligen pressreleasen som meddelade vinnarna. Priset som kallades NBIF Innovative Data Award bestod av 1 250 kanadensiska dollar som vi skänker direkt till Wikimedia Canada. Förhoppningsvis kan detta leda till fler bra samarbeten för dem, kanske med universitetet till och med.

Climate lexeme week

As part of the 30 lexic-o-days 2021, April 5-11 I am hosting a Climate lexeme week. During this thematic week the focus is to improve the lexemes derived from the Glossary of climate change. This is not a competition where points are given, instead this is a collaborative week when we help each other to improve these lexemes as much as we can.

In this 17-minute video, I explain the idea and what it is all about.

Launch of the Climate lexeme week.

Join in and learn about lexemes!

Logo based on File:Translation – A till Å-colours.svg by André Costa (WMSE)File:Global Warming icon – Noun Project 4963.svg by Luis Prado and File:Simpleicons Business calendar-weekly.svg by SimpleIcon (all modified), CC BY 4.0.

52 Wikidata weeks 2020

One of my projects for 2020 was to create one new Wikidata item – of a new type – each week. Just doing one per week would be easy, in fact, it looks like I created 206 items during 2020. The challenge was to have them be totally different, only one human, only one film, and so on (as defined by the property Instance of).

I set this challenge to myself mostly to get to know more of the different fields within Wikidata. Each field have it’s own way of modeling and some of them are easier than others, and some of them you encounter more than others. So not to get stuck in my usual tracks this seemed like a good idea.

Results

WeekItemLabelType label
1Q81795643Elisa Ghelfihuman
2Q81846513ISOC.nl Innovation awardaward
3Q83146620Wikipediapodden säsong 1podcast series season
4Q83725717Miljöpoddenpodcast
5Q84263995Open Belgium 2020conference
6Q84591434Dutch Global Health Film Festivalfilm festival
7Q85173796Timeline of the 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in February 2020timeline
8Q85907931Knutmassomuseetmuseum
9Q86839655Production and processing of graphene and related materialshandbook
10Q87353927Swedish Climate Policy Council report 2019report
11Q87722315Regulation prohibiting public meetings and public eventsimplementing regulation
12Q88286009Law regarding temporary closure of school activities in the event of extraordinary events in peacetimeact
13Q88974041Principles for accessibility of information to be reusedSwedish public consultation
14Q89418086Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s speech to the nationspeech to the nation
15Q90150519indicator 13.2.2 of the Sustainable Development GoalsSustainable Development Goal Indicator
16Q91104282Introduction to Philosophy: Ethicseducational book
17Q92101946Food for Progress Sweden ABbusiness
18Q92960393SHM, placesdata set
19Q93327372The Out Crowdpodcast episode
20Q94578230LEOSfree software
21Q95148468Guidelines for Authors of Papers to be Published in Springer Computer Science Proceedingsmanual
22Q95964376Closing the loopfilm
23Q96122939the largest spruce in Stockholmtree
24Q96279186Guardianweb fiction
25Q96739150Swedish copyright act 1 chapter 9 §article
26Q96739634individual motionmotion
27Q96807071Abstract WikipediaWikimedia project
28Q97101259Pave way for sustainable proteinindividual motion
29Q97446837ryaweaving technique
30Q97670193Chair of the Committee on the Labour Marketpublic office
31Q97971371Nordic textile awards 2000recurrent event edition
32Q98152348Medeltidsveckan 1984Medeltidsveckan
33Q984259032016 excavation of Skällvik castle ruinsexcavation
34Q98557007Electricity Intensity of Internet Data Transmission: Untangling the Estimatesscholarly article
35Q98770604Trettondagsmarschenmusical composition
36Q98918563Galvenhuman settlement
37Q99194018Tranås stationrailway station
38Q99488528Återbruka meraFaceboook group
39Q99673322Delicatobollchokladboll
40Q99951345hälsingeostkakaostkaka
41Q100276734Agenda: partiledardebatttelevision program
42Q100574195Södervägstreet
43Q101070007consulate general of Sweden in Brusselsconsulate general
44Q101072294Tuesday and Wednesdayrange of days of the week
45Q101331062rosemaryspice
46Q102440976Digital Public Goods Alliancealliance
47Q102442905Digital Public Goods Standardopen standard
48Q102440268Digidem Labcivic tech organization
49Q103911866Han har ett sättmusic track with vocals
50Q104150918UNFCCC secretariatsecretariat
51Q104383034ropsupancake
52Q104601133Sångbäckenbrook
53Q104601487Sångbäcksfalletwaterfall

The way I picked the topic each varied, and turned out to follow a few themes. A few of them are related to current events, another batch are related to what I was editing on the wikis anyway and a few that I just stumbled upon that needed to be fixed. A couple of times I got tips on what to create, and others still was very hard to figure out.

Tweets and edits

I tweeted all my edits often with some more comments under the hashtag #52wikidataweeks, but for your convenience, here they are along with some stats:

Week tweet# editsTotal edits
14545
21560
33595
418113
511124
613137
713150
818168
923191
1015206
1124230
1222252
1323275
1431306
1561367
167374
1723397
1843440
1956496
2029525
2124549
2214563
237570
2414584
2511595
266601
2713614
2834648
2943691
30161852
319861
3219880
3322902
343905
3520925
3613938
3710948
3839987
39641051
40151066
41421108
42151123
43211144
4471151
45171168
46261194
47231217
48231240
49331273
50171290
51281318
52291347
53111358

Besides these edits on Wikidata proper, there have been assisting edits to Wikipedia and also media uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. In some cases it also led to editing OpenStreetMap. The number of edits say very little. Some tools that I used grouped the edits (like week 34), but at least they show that anyone quite quickly can reach high edit numbers and “unlock” tools that require access rights given only to users with some edits under the belt.

Summary

This was a really fun challenge, and also quite hard. The hardest part was however not to model the items, because even for the topics I knew very little about either there are examples to look at or the very active community are helpful. No, the hardest part was to come up with items of different types that both had good sources and were notable. Some weeks (three if I remember correctly) I was a few days late, mostly because of this. If I couldn’t come up with something inspiring it was harder to get started.

As a whole though, I believe I reached my goal. I have definitely widened my knowledge of Wikidata. I also feel quite confident that I could edit more or less any topic, given decent amount of time of course. I can recommend anyone interested in Wikidata to try edit various fields. Not only do you learn about new ontologies, modeling and properties, you also get to meet editors that you might not come across otherwise. Sure, you don’t need to go on 52 week spree for that, but then again, why not?

Wikidata Menu Challenge vinner Wikidatacon Award 2019

Igår på konferensen Wikidatacon delades Wikidatacon Award ut för första gången. Den delades ut i ett gäng kategorier:

  • Editing
  • Ecosystem
  • Community building
  • Newcomer-friendly
  • Wikimedia integration
  • Outreach
  • Quality
  • Languages
  • Multimedia

Verktyget/projektet Wikidata Menu Challenge som jag har berättat om förut vann pris i kategorin Languages! Se prisutdelningen här.

Det hela är en laginsats med många inblandade. Och även om jag inte kan ta åt mig äran för att ha skrivit koden själv (den äran går till André Costa) blir jag extra glad eftersom att jag i somras som volontär drev projektet i en andra upplaga och återanvände koden för Wikimanias menyer.

Wikidata Menu Challenge – Wikimania 2019 edition

För ett par år sedan gjorde vi i Wikimedia Sverige en kul grej med Wikidata och mat. Vi fick ett antal detaljerade menyer inför matfestivalen Smaka på Stockholm och kopplade innehållen på dem med Wikidata. Dessutom körde vi en tävling för att översätta dessa matobjekt till många olika språk och ta bilder på maträtterna. Resultatet blev interaktiva menyer där man enkelt kunde växla språk på dem. Nu när det är dags för Wikimania i Stockholm tänkte vi använda oss av samma sätt för att tillgängliggöra konferensmenyn till deltagarna som kommer från hela världen. Om du vill hjälpa till att översätta eller fotografera mat hittar du tävlingssidan här. Tävlingen pågår 16 juli – 11 augusti.

PS. Om ni vill hjälpa till med själva konferensen så kan ni skriva upp er här.