Memory of the World challenge 2025/Log
2025-09-02 With apologies for the delay, we're delighted to announce the prizes for the Memory of the World challenge. The Khalili Collections are donating some large, hardback art catalogues, packed with colour photography, as well as some unique playing cards. UNESCO are donating "Let’s Explore the Memory of the World", a children's book that takes the reader on a journey through the cultures of Asia and the Pacific. Please take a look! Prizes will be sent in the post after the end of September.
2025-09-08 Congratulations to User:SIR SUCCESS (NAA JAHINFO) who has created four new articles in Dagbani Wikipedia, getting 20 points and taking the lead. The challenge is running through the rest of the month.
2025-09-09 At the start of the month, there was a problem with the UNESCO site which meant that some Memory of the World documents were not displaying. This has now been fixed.
UNESCO and the Khalili Foundation have made great progress describing the Memory of the World International Register in Wikidata. As a result, there are Wikidata queries that can be adapted for the Listeria tool to make Wikipedia list articles.
- Memory of the World International Register, Latin America and Caribbean
- Memory of the World International Register, Africa
- Memory of the World International Register, International Organisations
- Memory of the World International Register, Asia and the Pacific
- Memory of the World International Register, Arab states
- Memory of the World International Register, Europe and North America
2025-09-16 There is now an automated scoreboard so participants don't need to keep their own scores. It will detect relevant edits that you make on Wikipedia or Wikidata. Make sure you include the link to the UNESCO site in each Wikipedia article so that the article counts towards your score. Thanks to User:Zache and User:Susannaanas for their amazing work making this happen.
2025-09-19 It's great to see some new participants, more languages being represented, and some impressive scores. The UNESCO web site was giving some errors yesterday but that now seems to be fixed, although a bit slow.
2025-09-23 It's great to see new participants and the number of points getting bigger and bigger. A note for those who are creating new labels on Wikidata. You score points for creating labels in a new language: this means translating labels, not just copying them. When we check the final scores, copying an English label to another variant of English or using it unchanged as a different language label will probably not count towards your score. If you've translated a Wikipedia article into another language and there is some of the original language remaining, that's fine. It's hard to avoid and the original language can act as a placeholder for future translation. I'm pinging here some users who are creating Wikidata labels: @SIR SUCCESS (NAA JAHINFO), Jwale2, and I&I22: This doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong! This is just something to be aware of as you add Wikidata labels. MartinPoulter (talk) 14:12, 23 September 2025 (UTC)