 Yay. Can you hear me really? Okay. Good. Okay. I lost 15 minutes. That's okay. We'll just have to do this quickly. Shani told me that I should have told her that she took 15 minutes for my time. I told her this is my contribution to lessen the gender gap. So giving her 15 more minutes, my little thing. Okay. Coolest projects. This is I think the seventh year or sixth that I'm doing this project since 2012. This lecture. Every year it's different projects. The idea is to show what is done in various places around the world by chapters, affiliates, user groups, volunteers. Anybody can do a cool project. And then what I really like about it is that project that is cool one year is submitted again for this lecture two or three years later, which shows that the coolness is being propagated. So I'm doing this to give you ideas to do the same project in other areas. So first disclaimer. Of course, not all chapters project, not all affiliates and volunteers projects, only ones submitted to me. And only that only project that fit the definition of cool and low budget. Wikimedia Israel presented yesterday a very cool project about a caller forcing Glam institution to cooperate with us even when they don't want it. But it costs $2,500. So that's very cool, but too expensive. I defined cool as less than $2,000. So my definition. So again, I want to emphasize some of the projects sent to me, cool and low budget. Okay. So what is cool? Oh, cool is a big word. That's better. I used two definition for cool every year. The same two definition. First definition by Wojtek Wojtek. I think I hope I hope I stay his name right. New brave cost efficient and fun to talk about. I think this is a very good definition of cool. Something that's fun to talk about. Claudia Gerard gave also a great definition, motivating volunteers, newcomers, partners, added value, and future collaboration. Coolness. It's cool one year, but it must continue throughout the next year, have further impact, and encourage other places to do the same. So the program for today. First, I will present the coolest projects. I hope I will have enough time to do this. The projects were chosen by me and Daria, those that fit this criteria. Then we will, I will show you the finalists. There are three finalists. And then you will vote and choose the coolest project for 2019. I asked two people to help me with the voting, to count the votes. We are voting the Roman way. Not raising your hands because I can't see anybody, but by clapping your hands or your feet and shouting yay. Okay? So you vote. As I said, Daria was helping me. This is from a Zino Lario. She's with me. She's been helping me the past four years, I think. So the big question is, where is Daria? Why is she not here? It's not that she's lazy. She's working on her own cool project. This is a meeting from 2014 that was held in Wikimedia Israel. Jan Bart was the head of the Board of Trustees at the time and he came. And first of all, you can see the participants. You really can see the gender gap here. You know the woman in red project aimed at narrowing the gender gap? Everybody heard about it? Yes. Well, this is an example. There is one woman and she's in red. This is Daria. That guy noticed her and they went on a photo hunting tour to this very romantic place and they fell in love. And then in the middle of a wiki meeting, he gave a lecture and he proposed to her. She was very surprised. She was taking the video and this is the image. We have this. This is the Hebrew article of marriage proposals. And we have their picture because this is a real proposal. It's not simulated. And then they got married in Wikimania in Mexico. Jan Bart did the ceremony. Jimmy was the father of the bride for the purpose of the ceremony. And here is the cool project. Here he is in the Glam Conference in Tel Aviv. The help desk. So he is cool. Okay. As a cool project for 2019, everything that submitted after 2018. The main subject this year is glam because of the tracks. So I had to fit one of the tracks of the conference. So this is the glam track. Project number one, wiki loves birds from Nepal. The idea is behind these projects to photograph birds in Nepal for commons, improve the quality of the articles in English and in Nepali Wikipedia, improve wiki species, the articles about the world in wiki species, and do outreach program. Remember, coolness must create something afterwards. So they collaborated with conservation experts and expert wildlife photographers, collaborated with an organization named a country in Nepali. Wait. It's called bird life Nepal. That's the name of the organization. One of the things they did, you see the people, they did a session about how to do bird watching and how to recognize birds. So they bought the wikipedia and taught them. And I think that's one of the benefits of being a wikipedia. You get to learn cool stuff, go to interesting places. We give so much to society, we need to get something back. That's good. They bought a famous bird expert board member from bird life Nepal to teach them how to identify and how to watch birds. 24 people participated in the session. And this is the result of the project. 1200 new images of them, 10 valued and 15 quality images of 172 species. That's a lot. They built an ongoing relationship with bird life Nepal, which is now a glam cooperation with Continues. 15 participants and editor tone, 10 new users, and I continue. This is a very good outcome. Seven photo works, 103 articles created of them, 100 in Nepali and French English. Lots of edits, 20 editors participated. Then I ask them a question, why do they think this is cool? And they give a definition, which I probably will use next year also. Cool is unique, innovative. You use the lesson later, create strong partnerships and focus on the objectives. Okay. This is a cool picture that he took. Yeah. Well, that's cool. Oh, yeah. You can clap, but the voting is the end, but they do deserve clapping. So, yeah. Okay. Next project. This is both combination of meetups and glam. Oh, hello little fellow. And wiki goes Caribbean. Their goal was to write, update, improve information about the Dutch Caribbean and Suriname, which were previously Dutch colonies. Not only on Dutch Wikipedia, but also on local Wikipedia and of course, common pictures and wiki data. How did they do it? They send somebody to Aruba and Bonaire and Korsau, give workshops, trainings, teach local glam institutions how to work with local Wikipedians and encourage and teach the local Wikipedians as well how to do these kind of projects. Oh, this is a lovely place. We want to go there. They did glam partnership with all this glam participating. Not going to read all the list, but just looking at it, that's wow. And you're going to tell me, well, it's not low cost to send somebody to Caribbean, but most of the edit that they did were in Hague, in the National Archive in Hague, which is something that can be done in many countries. One thing that I think is cool, they had a food and drink team. Yeah, I'm fat. Food and drink, it's always cool. They brought all these kinds of foods and had articles written about them in Dutch Wikipedia and other languages. This is called Bolo Preto. I don't know what it is, but it looks tasty and Johnny cakes. I promise myself I'm going to write articles about this in also other languages. They give us tips. And it's important to train the trainers, teach the local trainers how to teach forward. You do not train once, but you need to teach them how to fish so they can train others. You need to train, do it several times, do it offline and then online and then offline in order to facilitate to increase the local wiki community. And you teach the GLAMs how to cooperate with Wikipedia, but more importantly, you teach the GLAMs how to teach other GLAMs. So that has bigger effects. I ask them again, what makes a cool project cool? This is a new definition that I really like, working together with cool organization and working together with lots of GLAM. Do you agree this is a new definition of coolness that we should apply? If you agree, tell me. Okay, next project. This also applies to meetups and community encouragement from India with wiki graphics boot camp. The idea is to create a community of wikipedia and graphics in India. They did it by series on online session and online training, two months training. Results, 22 wikipedia created 373 files for various projects. This is the first file created. And I give you some examples of the file created. This is one of the sessions. It was a 38 day long campaign and 19 languages. Of course, there are many more languages in India, but still one project that creates data in 19 languages is pretty cool. Because it's so many language communities, they had very difficulties that are unique. They needed to have a coordinator and language organizers to organize all the languages. So you see four coordinators, 26 language organizers, and they had to do training session to train the coordinators, which is difficult. In total results, about 200 participants, about 300 files, 3,000 files, 20 past languages, 11 events, and here you see in the comments the categories in all the various languages. Quite a lot. I have the number, several examples in different languages. I had the numbers, one second. About 3,000 files. That's a lot. Okay. Next project. Interwiki woman collaboration. Yes, definitely. This started in Wikimania. In Wikimania 2017, during the 100 wiki days meet up in Montreal, we had Armin from Armenia, Camilia from Italy, and Andrea from Argentina. They decided to have an international collaboration about writing articles about women. Not only at the same time, but on the same subjects. So in total, we had six languages, nine countries, 60 editors for two sessions. You see the language, the countries that participated. And this is an example of one session you had the women that was written about in different languages. And the wiki data items. Another example, there are still many minuses, but quite a lot of translation. This is a, they chose the subject of medieval Arabic women poets. Okay. That's for this project. Next project is a project from Spain. A ballot paper, campaigns and tools. The project is aimed at uploading ballots from campaigns, from elections. This is unique in two ways. First of all, there is lots of ballots. There's many local areas. You have many elections. You want to document the ballot papers. And these are usually destroyed soon after the elections. So there is a very short time period to collect and upload the images. But what's unique about this is this is something that can be done not only by Wikipedia's. By a lot of people who can be involved, politicians, people interested in politics. And this can get them into the community. Teach them about the movement, what can be done. And because it's people outside the movement mostly, they developed a web tool that did a lot of the work. One of the problems is to give proper names for the files, to scan and upload the files. And this is what the web tools did. And the graphics behind show you how many, what is the status in each area of the ballots uploaded. Results. Oh, well, I said the difficulty is a huge amount of documents. Many of these critiques, you need to coordinate a lot. And you have a very short time period to do this. The result of 60 participants, 10 campaigns, 2,600 files uploaded. And these are used in 120 articles. I asked them again, why is it cool? Involved members from different parties who are not Wikipedia. Causing collaboration. And people who do not have time to contribute in other way to the movement, learned about the movement and its goals. And maybe they will participate. Next project, there was a lecture about this yesterday, using AI and image recognition, adding WIT data, the PICS statement to artwork. One of the problems with AI is that it's difficult for machines to learn how to identify objects. What Andrew did, they uploaded images from the Met collectives, which are on commons. And had people play a game, the game is there, but it was so effective you cannot play it now because they finished all the pictures. But not only Wikipedia. 200 attendees, historians, tech people, the staff of the Met, Wikipedia volunteers came to play a game, they had food, drinks. This is what the game looked like. You see this picture? It's a village painting by, oh, I cannot see. It's a village. And they need to choose if you see a house or you don't see a house. If you see a tree and you don't see a tree. Once you do that, you get the items in Wikidata. So that's editing Wikidata, without actually going to Wikidata, teaching them how to edit. You don't have to open a username. The game opened like an anonymous username, who did all the edits. Later, editors checked it. But it also taught the computers AI learning. They taught it how to recognize images. And then you can have it running across other images doing the work. So at the end, the computer knew how to identify houses, trees, all the objects in the game. And that, of course, can assist Wikidata and other GLAM project in very effective ways. Okay, I like to end every lecture of mine with the same quote by Elena Roosevelt, one of the greatest, definitely the greatest woman, but one of the greatest people in the 20th century. She contributed to the founding of the United Nations and she personally did a lot of stuff. I've been to the museum dedicated to her in New York. She heard about church burning in the south of the United States in the 60s. And there is a picture of her walking with the stout cases to a bus station. She got onto the bus, she went to the churches, and she just sat on the steps of the churches to make sure they don't get burned. And she said nothing has ever been achieved by those who says this cannot be done. So of course, everything you've seen here can be done in other places. And now it's the time to choose the coolest project. I asked UTI to help me. Can I just come over and help with the voting? I'm going to show you the runners up. Don't vote yet. And then we're going to go over them and vote. Is there somebody from the projects here? I invited all of them, Richard, I think, from the Met. And Andrew, cool. I asked you to come as well, Andrew. Help me, yeah. And if you have questions later for Andrew, you can answer. So the runners up are Wicky Lovebird from Nepal. Wicky goes Caribbean. And the AI and image recognition from the Met. These are the finalists. Let's do the voting. Now you need to vote. If you like a project, clap or shout or vote. Thank you. Next one, Wicky goes Caribbean. Next one, Met Museum. Gaming. I think the last one won. Okay. It was very close. I think the first and the second one got the same amount. And this was the coolest. So yay, for coolest project. Thank you, Andrew. Do you have a question for Andrew? Well, I'll do the credits. Somebody? No questions. Okay. You need the... Thanks so much for voting for that game. And we hope to have some more candidates that you can play soon. Some stats about that game. There are more than 7,000 judgments made by Wicky Data Editors. And so they've resulted in about 5,000 edits or more to Wicky Data items. So if you look at the depict statements, you'll see things that all of you probably have tried one time or another to add to the Wicky Data items. We hope to have more things there soon. And as you said, there are more Wicky Data games to play. It's a really nice way to edit Wicky Data in kind of a relaxing mode. And thank you so much. We hope to get more games for you to play. It's especially cool because you don't have to learn Wicky Data. You don't have to have a username which is difficult to teach. It's complicated. You just play a game and it works. Okay. Thank you. If you have any questions for me, you can, but I don't... Okay. I think now it's lunch. Oh, yeah. One question. Oh, okay. We send every year an email to all the chapters, all the... And we publish in Facebook, in Wikipedia, one of the lists. Do you have a cool project? Do you have a Google Doc? Please fill it in. And those who answer, usually not many, send some reminders. It's a question for the audience. Do you think I should publish it also on the various village bumps in English, of course, but... Yeah. Okay. And then from that, mean Daria choose the ones that are applied to the definition of low cost, cool, and those are presented. Yes. Of course, the presentation will go on commons. Okay. Thank you.