This is rather fantastic news for all the communities of Linked Data around the world. Glad its finally happening now and seeing Google seeing value well placed...this should have been what was done with you and TPT (and a few old Freebaser's) over 5 years ago! Oh well, that's in the past. :-)
Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 12:05 PM Alex Stinson <astin...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Congrats Denny! Looking forward to talking with you more as you are get > more involved in working with the movement :) > > Cheers, > > Alex > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 12:57 PM Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@google.com> > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Over the last few years, more and more research teams all around the >> world have started to use Wikidata. Wikidata is becoming a fundamental >> resource [1]. That is also true for research at Google. One advantage of >> using Wikidata as a research resource is that it is available to everyone. >> Results can be reproduced and validated externally. Yay! >> >> I had used my 20% time to support such teams. The requests became more >> frequent, and now I am moving to a new role in Google Research, akin to a >> Wikimedian in Residence [2]: my role is to promote understanding of the >> Wikimedia projects within Google, work with Googlers to share more >> resources with the Wikimedia communities, and to facilitate the improvement >> of Wikimedia content by the Wikimedia communities, all with a strong focus >> on Wikidata. >> >> One deeply satisfying thing for me is that the goals of my new role and >> the goals of the communities are so well aligned: it is really about >> improving the coverage and quality of the content, and about pushing the >> projects closer towards letting everyone share in the sum of all knowledge. >> >> Expect to see more from me again - there are already a number of fun >> ideas in the pipeline, and I am looking forward to see them get out of the >> gates! I am looking forward to hearing your ideas and suggestions, and to >> continue contributing to the Wikimedia goals. >> >> Cheers, >> Denny >> >> P.S.: Which also means, incidentally, that my 20% time is opening for new >> shenanigans [3]. >> >> [1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=wikidata&sort=relevance >> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_in_residence >> [3] https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/vyf7ksah >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > > > -- > Alex Stinson > Senior Program Strategist > Wikimedia Foundation > Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads > > Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other > Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: > https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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