Very cool! Looking forward to seeing more of you! Am 19.09.19 um 18:56 schrieb Denny Vrandečić: > 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 >
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