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In September 2011 the Mayor of Derby awarded prizes to Sanko via a web cast and these paintings and books signed by the Wikimedia UK board and the mayor were mailed to him by Derby Museum. (The Mayor had never seen a web cast before!) Sanko was invited to rejoin the editors from Derby when the recent
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Sanko not only translated articles into Indonesian but he went back and told the original authors of their mistakes and he wrote articles about objects in the museum in Indonesian that had not been described elsewhere on wikipedia. I certainly enjoyed translating an article that Sanko had written
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I was very sad to hear that Sanko had died in July 2012 after a long illness. He created probably the only museum in the UK that you can wander around and understand everything even if you cannot speak a word of English but you only speak Bahasa Indonesian.
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and he worked hard competing with Anastasis Lvova and Tappinen. He eventually gained joint third with Conte di sarro from Italy. He wrote 100 diffeent articles, mostly in Bahasa Indonesian but also two in Java. The competion was named after
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which has artefacts labelled in Alemannisch, Belarusian (x2), Catalan/Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Finnish/French, Gallatian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Malaysian, N ....
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Any Wikipedian with a named account could participate. Two Wikipedians can form a team and participate jointly: this means you don't have to be multilingual!
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The challenge ended on 27 August 2011 (but translations are still welcome!). The five winners of Challenge 2 will be announced on 3 September 2011.
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If you speak Indonesian and you want to find out about England then click on Knowledge and read about the articles in that he brought alive.
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Knowledge is particularly pleased to see that Derby Museums are encouraging the creation of articles in languages other than English.
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in England was the first to collaborate with Knowledge in this way: so Derby is the first Knowledge multilingual challenge.
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The challenge was to improve articles linked to the Derby Museums in any Knowledge language. It covers the three museums (
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We presented this project at meetings in Derby, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Lillehammer, Amsterdam, Vienna and Haifa
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GibraltarpediA contest was launched and although we saw most return we should have wondered where Sanko was.
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a new short article (500 words of text, with internal and external links, inline ref and image) counts 5
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Ting Cheng, chair of the WMF board, visited Derby Museum on the final day of the competition (27 August)
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The challenge was designed to show what Knowledge could do for any museum, anywhere in the world.
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Welcome to the Knowledge Multilingual Challenge! ("The Wright Challenge") - our editors are
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is for five prizes offered by Wikimedia and Derby Museum and Art Gallery, to be awarded on
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Once written, articles will be accessed via Knowledge and by Museum visitors using
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a new stub (100 words of text, with internal and external links) counts 1
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We increased the Derby Museum articles in English by about a hundred
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five Wikipedians who have verifiably made the best contributions
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a short article improved to Good or Featured Article counts 3
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We have over a 1200 translations and nearly 100 new articles
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We have had lots of DYKs and many on non-English Wikipedias
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then Sanko from Indonesia and Conte di Sarre (from Italy)
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Sanko came from Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
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and Tappinen from Finland got an honourable mention
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Knowledge:GLAM
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Welcome
Help and Discussion
Participate
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New and Improved Pages
Did you know?
Barnstars and Prizes
QRpedia
crowd sourcing
HERE of prize giving
spread around the world

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Knowledge is particularly pleased to see that Derby Museums are encouraging the creation of articles in languages other than English.
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