Re: [Wikidata-l] Pushing Wikidata to the next level
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Re: [Wikidata-l] Pushing Wikidata to the next level
Congratulations Lydia! I also think that the user experience of Wikidata could use a little work. As it stands right now, it is definitely a little hard for an average user to make sense of what it is and what it can be used for. I'm going to try and contribute to that as best as I can over the coming few months and even apply some of those UI changes to the mobile skin! On an unrelated note, I got so excited to learn that you've studied at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology because that is one of the places I'm going to be applying to in a couple of months! Cheers, Pragun On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Scott MacLeod worlduniversityandsch...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations, Lydia! Nice to learn of this founding story of Wikidata (and an amazing development in Wikipedia), and thanks for all of your great visions for Wikidata and Wikipedia. Cheers, Scott On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Thomas thoma...@hotmail.fr wrote: Congratulation! I hope that Wikidata will become far more better than the amazing thing that it is currently. Thomas Le 1 oct. 2013 à 18:42, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk a écrit : On 1 October 2013 15:30, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: From now on I will be taking over product ownership of Wikidata as its product manager. I'm very pleased for you.; congratulations! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder President - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010. ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l -- Pragun Bhutani http://pragunbhutani.in Skype : pragun.bhutani ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] Pushing Wikidata to the next level
Thanks everyone! On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Pragun Bhutani pragu...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Lydia! Thank you! I also think that the user experience of Wikidata could use a little work. As it stands right now, it is definitely a little hard for an average user to make sense of what it is and what it can be used for. I'm going to try and contribute to that as best as I can over the coming few months and even apply some of those UI changes to the mobile skin! That would be fantastic. How about you start by looking around and seeing what's bugging you most and then we have a quick chat about it on IRC maybe? On an unrelated note, I got so excited to learn that you've studied at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology because that is one of the places I'm going to be applying to in a couple of months! It is a great university, Good luck with your application. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] Pushing Wikidata to the next level
Hi -- or better: Heya! -- Lydia: Congratulations to your new role! This is great news for the project, which allows Wikidata to proceed on its important mission in perfect continuity. Denny has made huge contributions to the project in the past 1.5 years -- a task that often involved balancing many forces, both on a technical and on a social level. Without his commitment and energy, we would not be in this encouraging position today. We would also have a lot less funding to draw from. We are really extremely fortunate to continue with a product manager who is perfectly prepared for this important role: someone who has the key skills as well as the specific experience, and who has a profound understanding of what open source and open knowledge are all about. So welcome again in your new job, and all the best for the next steps. Cheers, Markus On 01/10/13 15:30, Lydia Pintscher wrote: (crossposting from http://blog.wikimedia.de/?p=17250) In early 2010 I met Denny and Markus for the first time in a small room at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to talk about Semantic MediaWiki, its development and its community. I was intrigued by the idea they'd been pushing for since 2005 - bringing structured data to Wikipedia. So when the time came to assemble the team for the development of Wikidata and Denny approached me to do community communications for it there was no way I could have said no. The project sounded amazing and the timing was perfect since I was about to finish my studies of computer science. In the one and a half years since then we have achieved something amazing. We've built a great technical base for Wikidata and much more importantly we've built an amazing community around it. We've built the foundation for something extraordinary. On a personal level I could never have dreamed where this one meeting in a small room in Karlsruhe has taken me now. From now on I will be taking over product ownership of Wikidata as its product manager. Up until today we've built the foundation for something extraordinary. But at the same time there are still a lot of things that need to be worked on by all of us together. The areas that we need to focus on now are: * Building trust in our data. The project is still young and the Wikipedia editors and others are still wary of using data from Wikidata on a large scale. We need to build tools and processes to make our data more trustworthy. * Improving the user experience around Wikidata. Building Wikidata to the point where it is today was a tremendous technical task that we achieved in a rather short time. This though meant that in places the user experience has not gotten as much attention. We need to make the experience of using Wikidata smoother. * Making Wikidata easier to understand. Wikidata is a very geeky and technical project. However to be truly successful it will need to be easy to get the ideas behind it. These are crucial for Wikidata to have the impact we all want it to have. And we will all need to work on those - both in the development team and in the rest of the Wikidata community. Let's make Wikidata a joy to use and get it used in places and ways we can't even imagine yet. Cheers Lydia ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
[Wikidata-l] Pushing Wikidata to the next level
(crossposting from http://blog.wikimedia.de/?p=17250) In early 2010 I met Denny and Markus for the first time in a small room at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to talk about Semantic MediaWiki, its development and its community. I was intrigued by the idea they'd been pushing for since 2005 - bringing structured data to Wikipedia. So when the time came to assemble the team for the development of Wikidata and Denny approached me to do community communications for it there was no way I could have said no. The project sounded amazing and the timing was perfect since I was about to finish my studies of computer science. In the one and a half years since then we have achieved something amazing. We've built a great technical base for Wikidata and much more importantly we've built an amazing community around it. We've built the foundation for something extraordinary. On a personal level I could never have dreamed where this one meeting in a small room in Karlsruhe has taken me now. From now on I will be taking over product ownership of Wikidata as its product manager. Up until today we've built the foundation for something extraordinary. But at the same time there are still a lot of things that need to be worked on by all of us together. The areas that we need to focus on now are: * Building trust in our data. The project is still young and the Wikipedia editors and others are still wary of using data from Wikidata on a large scale. We need to build tools and processes to make our data more trustworthy. * Improving the user experience around Wikidata. Building Wikidata to the point where it is today was a tremendous technical task that we achieved in a rather short time. This though meant that in places the user experience has not gotten as much attention. We need to make the experience of using Wikidata smoother. * Making Wikidata easier to understand. Wikidata is a very geeky and technical project. However to be truly successful it will need to be easy to get the ideas behind it. These are crucial for Wikidata to have the impact we all want it to have. And we will all need to work on those - both in the development team and in the rest of the Wikidata community. Let's make Wikidata a joy to use and get it used in places and ways we can't even imagine yet. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] Pushing Wikidata to the next level
On 1 October 2013 15:30, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: From now on I will be taking over product ownership of Wikidata as its product manager. I'm very pleased for you.; congratulations! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] Pushing Wikidata to the next level
Wonderful news!!! Congratulations Lydia - looking forward to having a more awesome Wikidata project. Best, Alolita On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote: On 1 October 2013 15:30, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: From now on I will be taking over product ownership of Wikidata as its product manager. I'm very pleased for you.; congratulations! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] Pushing Wikidata to the next level
Congratulation! I hope that Wikidata will become far more better than the amazing thing that it is currently. Thomas Le 1 oct. 2013 à 18:42, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk a écrit : On 1 October 2013 15:30, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: From now on I will be taking over product ownership of Wikidata as its product manager. I'm very pleased for you.; congratulations! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] Pushing Wikidata to the next level
Congratulations, Lydia! Nice to learn of this founding story of Wikidata (and an amazing development in Wikipedia), and thanks for all of your great visions for Wikidata and Wikipedia. Cheers, Scott On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Thomas thoma...@hotmail.fr wrote: Congratulation! I hope that Wikidata will become far more better than the amazing thing that it is currently. Thomas Le 1 oct. 2013 à 18:42, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk a écrit : On 1 October 2013 15:30, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: From now on I will be taking over product ownership of Wikidata as its product manager. I'm very pleased for you.; congratulations! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder President - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010. ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
