Be part of the excitement leading up to and during OEGlobal 2024! This OEGlobal24 Australia campaign focuses on improving the descriptions of the 5,019 Australian images stored on Wikimedia Commons on the ISA Tool.
How to play:
- Head to the campaign page:
- Sign into your Wikimedia account – link is in the top right of the screen (log-in and create account links below)
- Click on the Get Started button!
- In the Depicts section, type out what you see in the text field … it will automatically provide options from Wikidata as you type
- Top tip: make sure your spelling is correct, and be specific to that piece - so using the example, instead of just “railway station” also include “Rawlinna Station”
- Click the flag of the linked depict statement you have chosen, if that is the most prominent part of the image.
- Remember to press SAVE!!
- In the Captions section, you can add a caption or a translation of the text into whichever language you are fluent in.
- Top tip: To add a language option, click on the top left horizontal lines, click on your username, click on Language preferences, and then choose the languages you wish to use. Click on the language drop-down
to change the interface to your preferred language. - Remember to press SAVE!!
- Click on the “Next Image” button to move to the next image.
- On the campaign page, you can check out how well you are doing in comparison to other players taking part in the campaign.
Play it! Give it a burl!
It’s a great way to increase your edit count and is easy to play on your phone. There might be prizes for the top 3 contributors!!
https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/350
About the images in this campaign:
There are 100s of 1,000s of Images of Australia on Wikimedia Commons. But rather than have you troll through historical and mediocre images, these are the few that have reached either quality, featured or value status.
They are drawn from these categories:
About the ISA Tool:
This campaign is run on the ISA Tool* - the ISA Tool was created as a game to improve the information of each image on Wikimedia Commons by harnessing human power. Using structured data, players of the “game” determine what is depicted in each image file on Wikimedia Commons and link that to an existing Wikidata item. This makes it much easier for people to find an already existing image when they want to illustrate an article on the Wikimedia projects – or beyond, say for education purposes – see what I did there! 
For bonus points, you can also add to the description of each image and translate it into any language you are fluent in.
Important note: you have to be signed into Wikimedia to play! Create an account here; or login here.
Watch the a beginners guide to the ISA Tool:
Wiki In Africa’s ISA tool has won the 2024 Coolest Tool’s Eggbeater Award and the 2019 WikiDataCon Award for Best Multimedia Tool.
*Ahem … full disclosure: I am one of the founders of the ISA Tool through my other hat, Wiki In Africa.