Hoi,

Jon a great initiative. I hope many people will consider updating Wikidata as well. As you know, Wikidata serves many languages with results when there is no article available. It is done especially well when people choose the "Reasonator" icon or when they choose a Wikipedia article in another language.

Of particular interest are the commonalities like other awards, their alma mater, where they are employed. When people who are in the public eye are known for other awards as well, we find that these connections are important and make people find the associated people and places of interest as well.

Thanks,

Gerard

On 8 October 2014 23:07, Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, all!

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in
cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Center> has invited Wikipedians
from the Norwegian Wikipedia community to an editathon to improve the
article about the winner(s?) as soon as possible. We'll be sitting
practically in the next room from where the announcement is made, updating
relevant articles as fast as we can.

For this to be a global event, I'd like to invite anyone who's interested
to join us in the IRC channel #wikipedia-nobel
<irc://freenode/#wikipedia-nobel>, where we'll be talking and coordinating.
We'll also try to livetweet the event using the hashtag #wikinobel
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/wikinobel>, probably mainly from the account
@WikimediaNorge <https://twitter.com/WikimediaNorge>.

The press conference will be start around 10:30 Norwegian time, which is *08:30
UTC*, like I said on *Friday, 10th of October*. Please join us, and help
spread this invitation to your community.

--
mvh
Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
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