On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 6:58 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].
That's great news. Congratulations, Denny! And thank you for everything you've already made possible even without this new hat. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
