Hoi,
With more involvement from the WMF itself, we may finally see them consider
some better integration with Wikipedia. It is the easiest and most obvious
quality improvement possible for both projects. It will be similar to
improving the interwiki links.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 5 October 2016 at 20:35, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote:
> Very glad to see this finally happen. Congratulations to all involved. :-)
>
> Dan
>
> On 5 October 2016 at 01:04, Léa Lacroix <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> An information that you could find useful : since the beginning of
>> Wikidata, the project and the development team (led by Wikimedia Germany)
>> were funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, through the Funds Dissemination
>> Committee, and by third parties. From now, the Wikimedia Foundation will
>> directly fund expenses for Wikidata software development. The two
>> organizations signed an agreement to have direct funding at least for the
>> next 3 years. This is good news, showing the strong support of our project
>> by the Foundation and will allow us more stability in the future.
>>
>> You can read the full blog post here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/201
>> 6/10/04/supporting-the-future-of-wikidata/
>>
>> Thanks for making Wikidata more and more awesome every day :)
>>
>> --
>> Léa Lacroix
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>> www.wikimedia.de
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>> für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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