Wikipedia:GLAM/Derby/Multilingual Challenge

The results were

1. Lvova from Russia first,
2. Fanfwah (and CLC) from France second,
3. then Sanko from Indonesia and Conte di Sarre (from Italy)
4. were joint third
5. The fifth place was RgC from the Czech republic

• and Tappinen from Finland got an honourable mention
• WEBCAST 3rd September 2011 HERE of prize giving
• We had over 40 editors who are spread around the world (only a few in England)
• We had two GAs (but not in English)
• We increased the Derby Museum articles in English by about a hundred
• We have had lots of DYKs and many on non-English Wikipedias
• We have over a 1200 translations and nearly 100 new articles
• We presented this project at meetings in Derby, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Lillehammer, Amsterdam, Vienna and Haifa
• Derby is the only museum in the UK (World?) which has artefacts labelled in Alemannisch, Belarusian (x2), Catalan/Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Finnish/French, Gallatian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Malaysian, N ....
• Ting Cheng, chair of the WMF board, visited Derby Museum on the final day of the competition (27 August)