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On Thu., Sep. 19, 2019, 1:05 p.m. 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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