ISA Tool/Results and best practices 2024
Introduction
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ISA is a fun, multilingual, mobile-first microcontributions tool, that makes it easy for (groups of inexperienced) people to add structured data to images on Wikimedia Commons.
ISA was originally built to provide better multilingual and structured descriptions of Wiki Loves Africa images. But it is also developed to be useful to all of the Wiki Loves X competitions, and eventually ended up being meant for all media files on Wikimedia Commons.
ISA was developed as a collaboration between Wiki In Africa, Histropedia and the Structured Data on Commons project. It is a GLAM pilot for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. The ongoing facilitation and communications for the ISA Tool is by the Wiki In Africa team.
Some of ISA Campaigns in 2024
[edit]Campaigns organised by Wiki In Africa
[edit]Tell us about her campaigns
[edit]Tell Us About Her: Women in Art - March/April 2024
[edit]| Tell us about Her | |
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| Link to the campaign: | https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/300 |
| Launch date : | 13th March 2024 |
| Closing date: | 30th April 2024 |
| Facilitator : | Anthere |
| Categories/Topic : | Improving visibility (and descriptions) of women in art. |
| Criteria : | See guidelines: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depiction_guidelines |
| Prizes : | 3 prizes : 1st prize : USD50 ; 2nd prize: USD25 ; 2rd prize: USD20 (or equivalent value in an online or data voucher). |
| Results : |
 Contributors: 38 ; Images worked on: 8158 ; Total Contributions: 32764
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Wiki Loves Africa campaigns
[edit]ISA Challenge - Wiki Loves Africa Africa Creates (October-November 2024)
[edit]| Wiki Loves Africa 2024 Africa Creates | |
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| Link to the campaign: | https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/339 |
| Launch date : | 1st October 2024 |
| Closing date: | 30th November 2024 |
| Facilitator : | Donia |
| Categories/Topic : | Improving description of the Wiki Loves Africa 2024 pictures on Wikimedia Commons. |
| Criteria : | Changes of ranks should not represent more than 20% of the edits. Rank edits over 20% will be discarded. See guidelines: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depiction_guidelines |
| Prizes : | Internet bundle or Amazon gift cards worth $50 for 1st prize and $25 for second prize |
| Results : |
Winners
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Campaigns organised by various wikimedia community members
[edit]AfroCreatives WikiProject 2024 en Côte d'Ivoire
[edit]| AfroCreatives WikiProject 2024 en Côte d'Ivoire | |
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| Link to the campaign: | https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/323 |
| Launch date : | 7 June 2024 |
| Closing date: | Not set |
| Facilitator : | Dadrik |
| Categories/Topic : | AfroCreatives WikiProject 2024. |
| Results : |
Contributors: 13 ; Images worked on: 8136; Total Contributions: 928 |
Wiki loves africa 2024 in Républic of Congo
[edit]| Wiki loves africa 2024 in Républic of Congo | |
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| Link to the campaign: | https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/319 |
| Launch date : | 3 May 2024 |
| Closing date: | Not set |
| Facilitator : | Kani Beat |
| Categories/Topic : | Wiki loves africa 2024 in Républic of Congo |
| Results : |
Contributors: 6 ; Images worked on: 575; Total Contributions: 901 |
Kampanye ISA 2023 Edisi Wiki Cinta Alam 2021-22
[edit]| Tell us about Her | |
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| Link to the campaign: | https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/243 |
| Launch date : | 6 April 2023 |
| Closing date: | Not set |
| Facilitator : | Bennylin |
| Categories/Topic : | Wiki Loves Earth Indonesia. |
| Results : |
Contributors: 25 ; Images worked on: 4852; Total Contributions: 64560 |
ISA Impact
[edit]Metrics by Queries
[edit]| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
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| Number of contributions | 0 | 51,640 | 85,563 | 150,295 | 153,094 | 162,083 | 41,777 |
| Number of contributors | 0 | 149 | 237 | 268 | 213 | 265 | 176 |
| Source query used to generate the contribution statistics | Data | Data | Data | Data | Data | Data | Data |
Wiki Mentor Africa ISA Hackathon 2024
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Catering specifically to Africans keen on becoming Wikimedia developers/tool creators and technical writers. From January 19th to 21st, this mission found new momentum with the very first 100% online Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon, with a spotlight on the innovative ISA tool.
Results & Impact
[edit]- 428 registered
- 328 attended the 3 days event
- 129 actively contributed to the hackathon.
Conferences
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- WikiArabia 2024 in Oman Unlocking Image Potential: Improve Searchability with the ISA Tool (Workshop)
- Link to the campaign during the workshop to practice.
- ISA presented as a poster at Wikimania 2024 at poland with a campaign about Poland for better explanation.
Tutorials to use ISA
[edit]These are some tutorials created in 2024 to explain using ISA:
- A Tutorial video about how to use ISA Tool as a participants. (This video explains what structured data is, what ISA is, and how to add structured data using ISA, published on Youtube in October 2024, prepared through months as a collaboration of WIA team)
- Slides about how to use ISA, created to be presented at WikiArabia Oman in October 2024.
ISA Awards
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- ISA received the Coolest Tool Award at Wikimania 2024, category Eggbeater.
Communications
[edit]Social media engagement
[edit]We use social media pages of Wiki In Africa and other allies to advertise ISA updates:
- We created social media campaign on WIA Facebook page, twitter, and telegram channels (African Wikimedians, Wikimedia announcements) to announce the tutorial video.
- We created social media campaigns on pages related to the campaign such as Wiki Loves Women for Tell Us About Her campaign and Wiki Loves Africa for their campaigns.
Email outreach
[edit]- We use mailing lists to announce ISA updates and to advertise campaigns
- We usually use the general ones such as: Wikimedia-l & africanWikimedians, but also we use other mailing lists according to the topic of the campaign announced.
ISA Blogposts
[edit]Some blog posts were published to document some achievements of ISA:
Some Feedbacks
[edit]- "It's an experience I never forget about and I will love to learn more if I have the opportunity. of course I'll recommend ISA to friends, family and colleagues at work." user:Toontak92, one of the winners of Tell Us about her ISA campaign 2024 about experience to join ISA campaign.
- A recorded interview on YouTube with Gabriel Ann Okpanachi, the 1st winner of Tell Us about her ISA campaign 2024, expressing her experience with ISA.