Hello everyone,

I hope this finds you well.

This month we are highlighting some suggestions from the UK community on small Wikimedia tasks that you can get involved in. Read on for more information on how just a little bit of your time can make knowledge more accessible and accurate.

August Mini Wiki

As it’s the holiday season, for August’s Mini Wiki we are showcasing *The Dist**ributed Game*, devised and developed by a UK community member, Mike Peel. The game matches new Wikipedia articles against Wikidata items. Once linked, anything related to that topic which is updated in Wikidata, will cascade across all language versions of Wikipedia, helping to make data consistency better across Wikipedias, and it also makes updating all Wikipedias as easy as one edit in Wikidata.

You can access the game here https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=82&opt=%7B%22type%22%3A%22all%22%7D with your Wikimedia account.

Below is a step-by-step guide on how to play the game!

1. *Log in!* Click the login button, you’ll be taken to a Wikimedia website where you should log in with your Wikimedia account, and then grant the Distributed game OAuth permissions to post edits using your account. 2. *Select* your preferred language under ‘Entry type’, or leave it on ‘Any’ to have random languages shown. 3. *Compare* the Wikidata item (top) against the new Wikipedia article (bottom), to see if they match. 4. If you are not sure, *click on the links* to look at the Wikidata item and Wikipedia article in more detail. You can also click on the language button below the Wikidata QID to see previews of other Wikipedia articles already linked to the Wikidata item. 5. *If you’re still not sure *of the match, click ‘Skip’, and you’ll move on to the next possible match. 6. If it is definitely* not a match*, click ‘No’, and the game will no longer show it (and if this was the last possible match for the article, Pi bot will shortly create a new item for the article) 7. If it is* definitely a match*, click ‘Match’ – and the game will edit Wikidata using your account to add the new sitelink.

Simple and easy, and you’ll probably learn some interesting facts along the way!

Our second mini task for August is also a suggestion from UK community member, Dr Martin Poulter, Wikimedian in Residence at the Khalili Foundation https://www.khalili.foundation/. They are collaborating with UNESCO https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world to improve the visibility of the Memory of the World International Register, https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/grid which describes 570 pieces of important cultural heritage from around the world.

Links on English Wikipedia articles which point to the Memory of the World register are broken and need to be fixed. A few minutes of your time can help to make this knowledge more accurate and accessible.

Below is a step-by-step guide on how to fix the links!

1. Here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_Memory_of_the_World_project/broken_links is a table of all the English Wikipedia articles, with a corresponding link which includes the name of the cultural heritage piece on the register. Find a link you would like to fix in the table. 2. Open up the Memory of the World International Register https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/grid and search for the item using the name at the end of the old link. When searching, it is important to *click the Search button* and not press return in the search box. Copy the link. 3. Open the English Wikipedia article and scroll down to the* References* section and replace the old link with the new link. 4. Remember to update the access-date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation_access-date of the link if one is included in the Wikipedia citation. 5. Once you’ve fixed a link, put a “x” in the final column of the table to mark it as done.

Thank you! To help us keep track of how Mini Wiki is being used, please use the #wmuk in your edit summary, where possible. We’d love to hear from you on your experience of using Mini Wiki. If you have an idea for a task that you would like the UK community’s help with that is quick and simple, then email rupal.karia@wikimedia.org.uk.