[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikidata] A collaboration between three Wikimedia affiliates to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata

[Shani Evenstein]

Wonderful news. Thanks for sharing!

Shani.


Shani Evenstein Sigalov


Vice Chair, Board of Trustees

Wikimedia Foundation 


On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 19:43, Samuel Klein  wrote:

> Hurrah!  Lovely work, thank you for the update.  ///S
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 4:35 AM Maria Heuschkel <
> maria.heusch...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
>> Dear everyone,
>>
>> As presented at last year's WikidataCon
>> , Wikimedia Deutschland has
>> set out to find new ways for collaboration around Wikidata software
>> development to enhance the diversity of our movement, increase Wikibase’s
>> scalability and robustness and breathe life into our movement principles of
>> knowledge equity. With a grant from Arcadia
>> , a charitable fund administered by
>> Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, we will be able to implement such a
>> collaboration in the next two years.
>>
>> Today, we are happy to share an exciting update on the progress of this
>> project with all of you. After spending the last few months with
>> conversations with the movement groups who were interested in joining such
>> a partnership, we have now reached a point where we can spread the news
>> about the future partners and projects that will shape this Wikidata
>> software collaboration.
>>
>> Wikimedia Indonesia, the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia
>> Deutschland will be joining forces to advance the technical capacities of
>> the movement around Wikidata development and with this, make the software
>> and tools more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of
>> the Global South and speakers of minority languages.
>>
>> Wikimedia Indonesia, a non-profit organization based in Jakarta,
>> Indonesia and established in 2008, is dedicated to encouraging the growth,
>> development & dissemination of knowledge in Indonesian and other languages
>> spoken in Indonesia. Since then, Wikimedia Indonesia has supported the
>> development of 14 Wikipedias in the languages spoken in Indonesia, 12
>> regional Wikimedian communities spread across the country, and two
>> Wikimedia project-based communities.
>>
>> For this project, in collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia
>> Indonesia wants to build up a software team of their own in the course of
>> the next 2 years. The tools will hopefully help under-resourced language
>> communities contributing to the flourishing of their languages online
>> through lexicographical data, and also involving the local language
>> communities in contributing to lexemes in Wikidata.
>>
>> Igbo Wikimedians is a group of Wikimedians that are committed to working
>> on various wiki projects related to Igbo language
>>  and culture. The user
>> group is organizing projects around community building in the Igbo
>> community, content improvement for Wikipedia and its sister project and has
>> established its own Wikidata hub in 2021.
>>
>> The Igbo Wikimedia User Group and their program of the Wiki Mentor Africa
>>  is aiming at
>> building up technical capacity in African Wikimedia communities by
>> mentoring African developers for Wikidata Tool Development. Wikimedia
>> Deutschland will support the user group in the implementation of their
>> project and mentoring program.
>>
>> Wikimedia Deutschland has been founded in 2004 as a member’s association
>> and is located in Berlin, Germany. Wikimedia Deutschland support
>> communities like the Wikipedia community, develop software for Wikimedia
>> projects and the ecosystem of Free Knowledge, and wants to improve the
>> political and legal framework for Wikipedia and for Free Knowledge in
>> general.
>>
>> Specifically, Wikimedia Deutschland has been working on the development
>> of Wikidata since 2012. Since then, an active and vibrant community of
>> volunteer editors and programmers, re-users, data donors, affiliates and
>> more has formed around Wikidata.
>>
>> Wikimedia Deutschland will be responsible for the administrative setup of
>> those collaborations and the communication with Arcadia. We are also happy
>> to share our experiences and knowledge about establishing software teams,
>> software development in the Wikidata/Wikibase environment, the Wikidata
>> community and providing support for emerging tech communities.
>>
>> If you want to find out more about the partnership, you can read up on
>> this on our project page on Meta
>> ,
>> where we will keep updating the community on the progress of this
>> collaboration. If you have any comments, suggestions or questions please
>> use the talk page there to get in contact with us.
>>
>> We are all excited to see those collaborations coming to life!
>>
>> With kind 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikidata] A collaboration between three Wikimedia affiliates to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata

[Samuel Klein]

Hurrah!  Lovely work, thank you for the update.  ///S

On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 4:35 AM Maria Heuschkel <
maria.heusch...@wikimedia.de> wrote:

> Dear everyone,
>
> As presented at last year's WikidataCon
> , Wikimedia Deutschland has
> set out to find new ways for collaboration around Wikidata software
> development to enhance the diversity of our movement, increase Wikibase’s
> scalability and robustness and breathe life into our movement principles of
> knowledge equity. With a grant from Arcadia
> , a charitable fund administered by
> Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, we will be able to implement such a
> collaboration in the next two years.
>
> Today, we are happy to share an exciting update on the progress of this
> project with all of you. After spending the last few months with
> conversations with the movement groups who were interested in joining such
> a partnership, we have now reached a point where we can spread the news
> about the future partners and projects that will shape this Wikidata
> software collaboration.
>
> Wikimedia Indonesia, the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia
> Deutschland will be joining forces to advance the technical capacities of
> the movement around Wikidata development and with this, make the software
> and tools more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of
> the Global South and speakers of minority languages.
>
> Wikimedia Indonesia, a non-profit organization based in Jakarta, Indonesia
> and established in 2008, is dedicated to encouraging the growth,
> development & dissemination of knowledge in Indonesian and other languages
> spoken in Indonesia. Since then, Wikimedia Indonesia has supported the
> development of 14 Wikipedias in the languages spoken in Indonesia, 12
> regional Wikimedian communities spread across the country, and two
> Wikimedia project-based communities.
>
> For this project, in collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia
> Indonesia wants to build up a software team of their own in the course of
> the next 2 years. The tools will hopefully help under-resourced language
> communities contributing to the flourishing of their languages online
> through lexicographical data, and also involving the local language
> communities in contributing to lexemes in Wikidata.
>
> Igbo Wikimedians is a group of Wikimedians that are committed to working
> on various wiki projects related to Igbo language
>  and culture. The user group
> is organizing projects around community building in the Igbo community,
> content improvement for Wikipedia and its sister project and has
> established its own Wikidata hub in 2021.
>
> The Igbo Wikimedia User Group and their program of the Wiki Mentor Africa
>  is aiming at
> building up technical capacity in African Wikimedia communities by
> mentoring African developers for Wikidata Tool Development. Wikimedia
> Deutschland will support the user group in the implementation of their
> project and mentoring program.
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland has been founded in 2004 as a member’s association
> and is located in Berlin, Germany. Wikimedia Deutschland support
> communities like the Wikipedia community, develop software for Wikimedia
> projects and the ecosystem of Free Knowledge, and wants to improve the
> political and legal framework for Wikipedia and for Free Knowledge in
> general.
>
> Specifically, Wikimedia Deutschland has been working on the development of
> Wikidata since 2012. Since then, an active and vibrant community of
> volunteer editors and programmers, re-users, data donors, affiliates and
> more has formed around Wikidata.
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland will be responsible for the administrative setup of
> those collaborations and the communication with Arcadia. We are also happy
> to share our experiences and knowledge about establishing software teams,
> software development in the Wikidata/Wikibase environment, the Wikidata
> community and providing support for emerging tech communities.
>
> If you want to find out more about the partnership, you can read up on
> this on our project page on Meta
> ,
> where we will keep updating the community on the progress of this
> collaboration. If you have any comments, suggestions or questions please
> use the talk page there to get in contact with us.
>
> We are all excited to see those collaborations coming to life!
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Igbo Wikimedians User Group
>
> Wikimedia Indonesia
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland
>
> --
> Maria Heuschkel
> Projektmanagerin
> Softwareentwicklung
>
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