Talk:Memory of the World challenge 2025

Memory of the World Challenge
September 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025
#MoW_Challenge

Points

Should participants keep track of their points themselves, or is this done by the organisers? Beireke1 (talk) 08:24, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Beireke1 and thanks for your interest. In an earlier similar challenge, participants kept track of their own points, so that's what we'll do this time. MartinPoulter (talk) 14:36, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Update: there is now an automated script that keeps track of points, so you don't have to work out your own score. Thanks to our Finnish friends! MartinPoulter (talk) 15:35, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

The world's most precious cultural heritage is the beings who live within and our harmonious collaborative rapport

I look forward to learning about and participating in this glorious project! Warm regards & in solidarity, I&I22 (talk) 10:37, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata item main subject or creator?

Hi @MartinPoulter I added a sentence to the English article on en:Bernard Deacon (anthropologist), and sourced it to the Register inscription, and then realised that the Wikidata item for the inscription didn't link to Deacon's item. I added him using the "creator" property. For the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, I added the tsunami as the main subject of the inscription Wikidata item. Do you welcome those sorts of edits or is it best to steer clear so they can be done en masse by someone such as yourself for greater consistency? DrThneed (talk) 04:59, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello @DrThneed- great to see you here! Sorry for taking a while to see your message. In the data import to Wikidata, we have not been adding Main subject or Creator properties en masse, so I do indeed welcome these sorts of edits. I hadn't thought about giving them points in the challenge, but they are still valuable additions to the data set.

What you've done with the Bernard Deacon article is exactly the sort of edit I'm hoping to see lots of, but one correction: that inscription is on the Memory of the World International Register, not the Memory of the World Aotearoa New Zealand Ngā Mahara o te Ao register which is a separate national register. You should get points for adding the citation and I'll fix the wikilink. Best wishes, MartinPoulter (talk) 15:44, 16 September 2025 (UTC)