Rock'n'roll Danny.
May the Force be with you.

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 19:32 Shani Evenstein <[email protected]> wrote:

> That is such great news, Danny!
> I'm sure you'll do an amazing job at it, as always. We're lucky to have
> you as our ambassador.
>
> All the best in your new role and looking forward to following your work,
> Shani.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> *Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
>
> * Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
> * EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler
> School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
> * PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
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> Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>.
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> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 8:19 PM Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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 <[email protected]>
>> 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 <[email protected]>
>>> 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
>>>>
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