Wikidata:Tenth Birthday/DACH Culture Contest

Contact: Manfred Werner (WMAT)

Wikidata's 10^th Birthday – DACH Culture Contest

As part of the celebrations around Wikidata's tenth birthday in October 2022, Wikimedia Austria (Q18559623) and Wikimedia Deutschland (Q8288) are organizing a contest with the goal to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland – also known as D-A-CH (Q1151241).

Timeline

• The competition runs from Saturday, October 1 2022, 00:00 UTC until Monday, October 16 2022, 23:59 UTC. You can enroll at any time during the competition.
• The final score will be calculated, and the results announced, about two weeks after the competition.

Scope

• There are two categories with separate scopes and prizes. Please choose one of the categories to participate in, you may not enroll in both parts of the competition.
• You can take a look at the queries used to track the contributions in this overview.
  Only items that appear in one this queries are part of the contest.
• Your score increases by adding data to new or existing items related to

1. Libraries in Austria, Germany or Switzerland:
   • any sort of library (Q7075) or library building (Q856584) (via instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279)) if country (P17) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39).
   • any item whose employer (P108) is some sort of library (Q7075) or library building (Q856584) (via instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279)) if country (P17) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39).
   • any item with location (P276) in some sort of library (Q7075) or library building (Q856584) (via instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279)) if country (P17) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39).
   • any item with either OBV edition ID (P6201), swisscovery edition ID (P9907), DNB edition ID (P1292), K10plus PPN ID (P6721).
2. Culture of Austria, Germany or Switzerland:
   • creative work (Q17537576) of which the country of origin (P495) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • literary work (Q7725634) if the place of birth (P19) or the country of citizenship (P27) of the author (P50) or the location of first performance (P4647) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • film (Q11424) if the place of birth (P19) or the country of citizenship (P27) of the director (P57) or the location of the production company (P272) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • performing arts production (Q43099500) if the place of birth (P19) or the country of citizenship (P27) of the director (P57) or the location of the production company (P272) or of the location of first performance (P4647) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • video game (Q7889) if the country of origin (P495) or the location of the developer (P178) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • musical work (Q2188189) if the country of origin (P495) or country of citizenship of the performer (P175) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • if the collection (P195) is located in Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39) (for artworks)
   • painting (Q3305213) or sculpture (Q860861) or monument (Q4989906) or drawing (Q93184) or statue (Q179700) if the place of birth (P19) or the country of citizenship (P27) of the creator (P170) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • architectural structure (Q811979) if it is located in Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • any item if the country of citizenship (P27) of the architect (P84) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • any entity with a heritage designation (P1435) for which country (P17) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • any creator (Q2500638) (author, painter, architect, etc.) if the place of birth (P19) or the country of citizenship (P27) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • any performing arts group (Q105815710) (band, ballet company, etc.) if the location of formation (P740) or the country of origin (P495) is Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • video game companies (any video game developer (Q210167), video game publisher (Q1137109) or entity whose industry (P452) is video game industry (Q941863)) for which the country of origin (P495) or headquarters location (P159) is located in Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • any cultural event (Q58687420) and festival (Q132241) that is located in Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)
   • any cultural institution (Q3152824) that is located in Austria (Q40) or Germany (Q183) or Switzerland (Q39)

How to participate

Sign in or create a new account for the Wikimedia projects.

Enroll in the respective Event Dashboard for the part of the competition you want to join. Every participant may enroll in only one of the dashboards.

• Dashboard for Libraries in D-A-CH
• Dashboard for Culture of D-A-CH

There your contributions will be tracked. The score is based on the "characters added".
Only data collected in the Dashboards is taken into account when calculating the score. Bots are excluded from participation but you can use other editing tools.

Please also enter your user name in the list below.

Participants

Prizes

For the two categories in this competition there will be three prizes respectively.

• 2× Prize 1: 150 EUR vouchers
• 2× Prize 2: 100 EUR vouchers
• 2× Prize 3: 050 EUR vouchers

The vouchers will be from institutions or organisations for cultural events, book stores or similar. We will contact the winners to agree upon which kind of vouchers would be of interest for them.

Winners

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all participants!

Category Culture of Austria, Germany or Switzerland

• 1st User:Moebeus 1,987,074 characters
• 2nd User:AnBuKu 1,233,806 characters
• 3rd User:PantherStrix 1,162,229 characters

Category Libraries in Austria, Germany or Switzerland

• 1st User:Emu 2,544,438 characters
• 2nd User:Madamebiblio 1,420,750 characters
• 3rd User:Empat_Tilda 918,015 characters