[Wikimedia-l] Winner of WikiGap Challenge 2020 announced

Dear all, <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge> took place. The WikiGap Challenge is a challenge aiming to create or improve articles about women on Wikipedia. It is a part of the WikiGap campaign, organized by Wikimedia Sverige, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Swedish embassies and Wikimedia affiliates across the world. This year, we teamed up with the UN Human Rights office, who proposed a list of 20 women human rights defenders <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/List> that had no Wikipedia articles (or in only a very few languages). These articles gave bonus points in the challenge. It took some extra time this year to finalize the results from the WikiGap Challenge <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge>, but now we’re done! And I must confess that we are quite happy with the results. General outcome - 72 competitors with actual edits (90 signed up) - 3,224 articles created or improved. - 461 Wikidata objects improved - Edits made in 38 languages. - Editors have contributed 61,591,425 bytes, or roughly 61,5 megabytes. Human Rights articles - There are 20 women in the list. - 338 articles were created about these women during the challenge. - The articles have in total been created in 32 different languages. - The article about Bogaletch Gebre <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogaletch_Gebre> is available in the highest amount of languages, 24 languages. - Anna Sharyhina has the largest total size among all languages, with 192,918 bytes (192kb). - The largest individual article is the article about Anna Sharyhina in Ukrainian <https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0> . We can now also announce that the winner of the WikiGap Challenge this year is Andriy Gritsenko – who also won last year! During the WikiGap Challenge 2020, Andriy wrote or improved 416 articles about women during the month. You can read more on his motivation and engagement in a piece on our blog: [link] Andriy gets to visit the UN Human Rights office in Geneva when the world so permits, as the first prize. Congrats, Andriy! His entries, and the rest of the top 10, can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Results We also wrote a piece on the Wikimedia Sverige blog about it, which can be found here: https://wikimedia.se/2020/04/24/vem-blev-vinnare-i-wikigap-challenge-2020/ Best, *Eric Luth* Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and Advocacy Wikimedia Sverige eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se +46 (0) 765 55 50 95 Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige. Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se