Wonderful news. Thanks for sharing! Shani.
Shani Evenstein Sigalov <https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/> Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 19:43, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hurrah! Lovely work, thank you for the update. ///S > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 4:35 AM Maria Heuschkel < > maria.heusch...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > >> Dear everyone, >> >> As presented at last year's WikidataCon >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VxTlBNkyk>, Wikimedia Deutschland has >> set out to find new ways for collaboration around Wikidata software >> development to enhance the diversity of our movement, increase Wikibase’s >> scalability and robustness and breathe life into our movement principles of >> knowledge equity. With a grant from Arcadia >> <https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/>, a charitable fund administered by >> Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, we will be able to implement such a >> collaboration in the next two years. >> >> Today, we are happy to share an exciting update on the progress of this >> project with all of you. After spending the last few months with >> conversations with the movement groups who were interested in joining such >> a partnership, we have now reached a point where we can spread the news >> about the future partners and projects that will shape this Wikidata >> software collaboration. >> >> Wikimedia Indonesia, the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia >> Deutschland will be joining forces to advance the technical capacities of >> the movement around Wikidata development and with this, make the software >> and tools more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of >> the Global South and speakers of minority languages. >> >> Wikimedia Indonesia, a non-profit organization based in Jakarta, >> Indonesia and established in 2008, is dedicated to encouraging the growth, >> development & dissemination of knowledge in Indonesian and other languages >> spoken in Indonesia. Since then, Wikimedia Indonesia has supported the >> development of 14 Wikipedias in the languages spoken in Indonesia, 12 >> regional Wikimedian communities spread across the country, and two >> Wikimedia project-based communities. >> >> For this project, in collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia >> Indonesia wants to build up a software team of their own in the course of >> the next 2 years. The tools will hopefully help under-resourced language >> communities contributing to the flourishing of their languages online >> through lexicographical data, and also involving the local language >> communities in contributing to lexemes in Wikidata. >> >> Igbo Wikimedians is a group of Wikimedians that are committed to working >> on various wiki projects related to Igbo language >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_language> and culture. The user >> group is organizing projects around community building in the Igbo >> community, content improvement for Wikipedia and its sister project and has >> established its own Wikidata hub in 2021. >> >> The Igbo Wikimedia User Group and their program of the Wiki Mentor Africa >> <https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiki_Mentor_Africa> is aiming at >> building up technical capacity in African Wikimedia communities by >> mentoring African developers for Wikidata Tool Development. Wikimedia >> Deutschland will support the user group in the implementation of their >> project and mentoring program. >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland has been founded in 2004 as a member’s association >> and is located in Berlin, Germany. Wikimedia Deutschland support >> communities like the Wikipedia community, develop software for Wikimedia >> projects and the ecosystem of Free Knowledge, and wants to improve the >> political and legal framework for Wikipedia and for Free Knowledge in >> general. >> >> Specifically, Wikimedia Deutschland has been working on the development >> of Wikidata since 2012. Since then, an active and vibrant community of >> volunteer editors and programmers, re-users, data donors, affiliates and >> more has formed around Wikidata. >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland will be responsible for the administrative setup of >> those collaborations and the communication with Arcadia. We are also happy >> to share our experiences and knowledge about establishing software teams, >> software development in the Wikidata/Wikibase environment, the Wikidata >> community and providing support for emerging tech communities. >> >> If you want to find out more about the partnership, you can read up on >> this on our project page on Meta >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata>, >> where we will keep updating the community on the progress of this >> collaboration. If you have any comments, suggestions or questions please >> use the talk page there to get in contact with us. >> >> We are all excited to see those collaborations coming to life! >> >> With kind regards, >> >> Igbo Wikimedians User Group >> >> Wikimedia Indonesia >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland >> >> -- >> Maria Heuschkel >> Projektmanagerin >> Softwareentwicklung >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin >> Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 >> https://wikimedia.de >> >> Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der >> Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! >> https://spenden.wikimedia.de >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. >> Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter >> der Nummer 23855 B. 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