TED conferences/TED speakers challenge/Data

TED speakers challenge
6 June - 13 July, 2016
#TEDwiki / TED speakers

The start position in terms of number of articles about TED speakers per tracked language is here. For the full list of articles per tracked language, click on the languages link. See below the table for status reports during the challenge. Note that you can add an article in any language that you create/improve to the sign up table - this is a pre-determined list based on the TED metadata, with languages added somewhat haphazardly. TED supports subtitles in over 70 languages, and you can have a Wikipedia language added to the table by placing a request on the discussion page.

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Data / Reporting

Winner and top ten runners-up

The top eleven finishers (based on self-reporting of points) are as follows:

User account	Your languages	Total
User:MRG90	Persian and others	1303
User:Ecritures	Dutch	1288
User:Chairego_apc	Galician and others	570
User:Andrew_J.Kurbiko	Ukrainian	441
User:Natuur12	Dutch, English	160
User:Armineaghayan	Armenian	110
User:czar	English	92
User:Papuass	Latvian	75
User:Einstein2	Hungarian, English	70
User:Srividya	Kannada, Hindi and English	54
User:Csyogi	Kannada, Hindi, English	49

Data

For a list of TED speakers without images in their Wikidata items by number of sitelinks see this SPARQL query. For a timeline of TED talks by author colorcoded by gender, see this query. On WIkidata, the percentage of women among TED speakers is 30.5% according to this query.

Tracked articles on Wikipedia: See m:List of Wikipedias for the list of Wikipedia projects and their 2-letter codes.

wiki	Tracked?	Language	#articles 6 June	#new articles during challenge	#articles 8 July	%increase during 2016 challenge	#articles 6 June 2017
enwiki	Y	English	1161	17	1178	1.50%	1208
dewiki	Y	German	521	3	524	0.60%	533
frwiki	Y	French	488	1	489	0.20%	527
eswiki	Y	Spanish	358	1	359	0.30%	376
itwiki	Y	Italian	329	0	329		343
ruwiki	Y	Russian	305	5	310	1.60%	321
svwiki		Swedish	303	0	303		312
nlwiki	Y	Dutch	297	10	307	3.40%	317
ptwiki	Y	Portuguese	282	1	283	0.40%	300
jawiki	Y	Japanese	264	0	264		281
fawiki	Y	Farsi	251	11	262	4.40%	280
zhwiki	Y	Chinese	243	2	245	0.80%	257
cawiki		Catalan	187	2	189	1.10%	208
nowiki		Norwegian	177	2	179	1.10%	186
kowiki	Y	Korean	176	1	177	0.60%	188
trwiki	Y	Turkish	152	0	152		166
dawiki		Danish	135	0	135		142
huwiki		Hungarian	113	0	113		118
viwiki	Y	Vietnamese	88	1	89	1.10%	99
euwiki		Euskara	78	0	78		81
srwiki		Serbian	78	2	80	2.60%	85
glwiki		Galician	70	1	71	1.40%	74
lvwiki		Latvian	60	12	72	20.00%	73
ltwiki		Lithuanian	54	1	55	1.90%	57
cywiki		Welsh	47	1	48	2.10%	51
gawiki		Irish	38	0	38		46
astwiki		Asturian	31	0	31		34
ndswiki		Low German	16	1	17	6.30%	18
gdwiki		Scottish Gaelic	12	0	12		12
arwiki		Arabic	201	3	204	1.50%	241
cswiki		Czech	179	1	180	0.60%	193
cvwiki		Chuvash	6	1	7	16.70%	10
elwiki		Greek	79	0	79		87
fiwiki		Finnish	212	1	213	0.50%	219
hewiki		Hebrew	212	2	214	0.90%	222
hrwiki		Croatian	67	0	67		69
hywiki		Armenian	53	20	73	37.70%	85
iawiki		Interlingua	11	0	11		11
pawiki		Punjabi	35	1	36	2.90%	48
plwiki	Y	Polish	244	3	247	1.20%	257
pnbwiki		Western Punjabi	27	0	27		31
rowiki		Romanian	113	1	114	0.90%	119
scowiki		Scots	45	5	50	11.10%	60
sqwiki		Albanian	39	0	39		42
xmfwiki		Mingrelian	13	0	13		19
hiwiki		Hindi	54	0	54		59
kawiki		Georgian	50	1	51	2.00%	53
pswiki		Pashto	5	1	6	20.00%	6
idwiki		Indonesian	138	1	139	0.70%	144
tawiki		Tamil	81	2	83	2.50%	86
knwiki		Kannada	22	1	23	4.50%	24
shwiki		Serbo-Croatian	75	3	78	4.00%	80
urwiki		Urdu	34	1	35	2.90%	38
amwiki		Amharic	9	1	10	11.10%	10
orwiki		Oriya	8	1	9	12.50%	13
uzwiki		Uzbek	19	2	21	10.50%	23
bnwiki		Bengali	67	3	70	4.50%	71
iswiki		Icelandic	51	1	52	2.00%	53
zh_min_nanwiki		Min Nan	38	1	39	2.60%	44
azbwiki		South Azerbaijani	4	1	5	25.00%	10
mlwiki		Malayalam	74	1	75	1.40%	84
tgwiki		Tajik	12	4	16	33.30%	17
ukwiki		Ukrainian	151	23	174	15.20%	184
simplewiki		Simple English	135	1	136	0.70%	145

Reporting

Background information about the TED data donation can be read from WMF on April 22, 2016 here:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/22/ted-wikimedia-collaboration/

and from TED on May 25, 2016 here:

http://blog.ted.com/meet-teds-wikipedians-in-residence/

For the first official tweet about this writing challenge see this tweet from TED on June 9, 2016 here:

https://twitter.com/TEDNews/status/740580068376858624

On June 29th TED announced double points for speakers who wrote the books in the prize package.