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 <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]. > > [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 > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > 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
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