 Hello, hello. We have reached the end of wikimania. This is my first wikimania And so I have a few I'm gonna start off this session with a few closing remarks. I love wikipedia I love reading wikipedia, and I love the pictures because unlike say Getty images wikipedia photos are not always polished I'm a really big fan of the wikipedia article high five Particularly these four photos taken in 2008 were a couple demonstrates up high down low victim misses and too slow with finger guns So much that I reached out to these people and they told me that when they took these photos They were kind of in an it's complicated situation But now they are married. They have two kids and they recreated the photos with their whole family Um wikipedia is created by real people as we know and I think that's a Huge asset when you get to see those little moments of humanity. I met the guy who shrugged at a nightclub in 2006 Um, and then became the face of shrugging for decades He recreated his shrug on stage in front of shrug fans And so last week I decided that I was gonna go visit these people why who are these people if You visited the wikipedia article for human on English or Thai or various other languages You'll recognize them. They're in the info box for human. They are the humans. They're the digital type Specialists they're the digital type specimen In many languages on wikipedia and I figured you know what I wonder if they know how famous they are I didn't really know how to get in contact with them So I reached out to the person that took this photo back in 2007 and he said hey They operate a little bed and breakfast in their spare room and you should totally go visit them And so I said sure I'm going to Asia anyway for wiki mania and so I went For the record though some other languages use different photos. I just compiled some of them But here are some of the various other human images that are used across different wikipedia Anyway, I arrived to the Chiang Rai Airport in Northern Thailand I took a car 90 minutes and finally I arrived in the village. It is a small Village, it's very rural and that was on purpose the editors decided that a rural photo is appropriate because for most of human history We've not lived in massive cities, but small communities And they were not there sadly the man has passed away The grandma is alive, but she was at the temple for a holiday but I did meet their children and They did not know that their grandparents were the ones that were that were representing Humanity and they thought it was just the coolest thing ever so I'm saying all this to say that the humans behind wikipedia are what make it wonderful um So some of you know me from depths of wikipedia where I Share like interesting odd corners of the project like chess boxing or Vienna bread I love this photo because for some reason an editor added radial motion blur to it Like this bread is on the move for some reason. I think that radial motion blur makes everything better Some of you on English wikipedia might remember when the caption for guy standing said guy standing sitting It no longer says this because it was too funny There's an article for skunks as pets There's an article for the ugliest color in the world. It's now the color of cigarette packages There's an article for the average color of the universe There's an article for Italian men that stand with their hands clasped behind their backs and look at construction sites and offer Unwanted advice there's an article for breasts shaped hills There's recursive islands, which is like islands and lakes islands and lakes on islands There are islands in lakes on islands in lakes and islands in lakes on islands in lakes on islands Wikipedia has everything we have Diego who had so much sex that he saved his species a hero Thanks for clapping as You know sometimes we have vandals. It is very hard to catch them Especially when they're really sneaky for example about 15 years ago Somebody created an article about Jarredo Wends an Australian Aboriginal God that was associated with victory and Intelligence and all these great qualities. This article stood for 10 years. It was used in university lectures It was printed into textbooks and it took it took an entire decade until a Wikipedia and realized wait this doesn't exist and it was probably created by a board Australian teenager named Jarred Owens So I decided to take the same approach to wiki mania This is my first in-person wiki mania and there are so many Fun little things that I have learned I learned about how Ukrainian wikipedia Wikipedia send each other cans of sweet and condensed milk like in the mail physical. I learned about wiki mappia. I learned about the hackathon. Um, I I enjoyed that like right off the bat on the morning of the 16th Andy Mabit username pigs on the wing made an edit to say that wiki mania is Currently happening in Singapore. So thank you, Andy. I Witnessed a beautiful citation needed necklace. I ate a Wallaby shaped caramel thanks to wiki media Australia. I Visited the botanical gardens and there was this little section of the orchids Garden where there were orchids dedicated to various leaders in the world I didn't know all of the leaders, but luckily I was with wikipedians who did they were able like I would just point at one and say who's that and they would give me this very, you know Like concise description of everything that person had contributed to the world It was as if they were walking in cyclopedias exactly the sort of person that you want to go to a VIP orchid garden with The wikimedean of the year ceremony was great because when the awards were announced I noticed a little glow of blue light where people were live updating the the article I Heard from butch that wikimedea, Italia, which is very familiar with Italian spaghetti tried Filipino spaghetti and gave it a thumbs up. Oh I learned that there's a Ukrainian wikipedia article about fights in parliament and it has this absolutely absurd photo of a fight happening Very crazy to me. I I bought from doc James Wikipedia in a box. I don't know why I bought it because I'm not a doctor And this has a lot of medical information and I also generally have internet, but I'm really excited to own it. I Really enjoyed that the hotel labeled our room wikimedea evening foundation it's like a late-night rebrand and Overall, I just liked meeting new people and putting a face to wikipedia. You guys are what make this project great And It has been wonderful to me all of you Ma I feel this emotion. This is so in Japanese wikipedia Eugene told me that because of copyright issues There's a wikipedia editor that makes these animated versions of movies and this is supposed to be John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever But it's this like somewhat unsettling unsettling cartoon But anyway, this is how I feel about wikimedea. Wow. Wow. Wow I've had a great time. So thank you so much and then passing it on to Brooke from the foundation Wow, no one wants to be the person to follow Annie I am Brooke I work for the foundation and I want to thank everybody who participated in the social media Scavenger hunt if you didn't you can get excited for it next year And so Annie is gonna help me pick three winners prizes were promised They will be mailed to the winners the very lucky people But in the meantime, we have some working staff t-shirts as a placeholder prize to Thank you for your hard work sharing about wikimedea wikimedea with All your followers around the world So without further ado, Annie. Will you help me pick three winners? first up is Dari Lynn Dari Island, maybe or Darryl Lynn, maybe if you're here you can come on up Next is Kaby lawn Fernand R2B Fernando R2B, I think hard to read high-end writing people Annie is there something happening in the back of the room Whoa, there's a poster back there. Oh my gosh Hello coming to you live from the back of the room My name is meredad and I have the pleasure of being here with our graphic recorder Hi, hi everyone. Thank you so much for having us here. My name is Nara. I'm from idea Inc We are an illustration studio based in Singapore So what you can see here We have a sketch wall and we've been here all through the four days. We've been covering all your insights all your quotes You can see I mean little fun little things like this bird to represent misinformation We've also captured like different Sections that went throughout the four days and the conferences and special quotes that went out from Jimmy Wales So, yeah, thank you so much for having us here. I really enjoyed covering the sessions Yeah, happy to be here Amazing. So it's it starts up here, correct Everywhere. Okay. I see the Merlion here Incredible, thank you so much and even a shout out to Wikimedia 2024 I believe right here, which we'll hear more about later back to the front of the room