Fantastic. Thanks for maintaining the weekly newsletter + space to annotate the roadmap!
An infobridge in every box, SJ On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 4:38 AM Léa Lacroix <lea.lacr...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hello all, > > For the past four years, I’ve been working in the software department at > Wikimedia Germany, taking care of the communication between the Wikidata > development team <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:DEV> and the > community, announcing new features, collecting bug reports and feature > requests from you. On top of that, I’ve been coordinating various projects, > bringing the WikidataCon > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMDE/WikidataCon/Report#Introduction> > to > life, coordinating the Wikidata decentralized birthday > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday>, creating a > prototype for Wikidata Train the Trainers > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Train_the_trainers>, and taking > care of various onsite or online workshops, meetups and other events. > > Over the past years, with the Wikidata community growing, the development > team growing as well, more and more events happening, and the ecosystem of > Wikibase users forming a distinct group with different needs, it became > pretty clear that one person was not enough to keep track of everything and > provide the best support for the Wikidata editors. That’s the reason why, > earlier this year, we had the pleasure to announce the arrival of a new > colleague who you already know from being an active Wikidata editor, Mohammed > Sadat (WMDE) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mohammed_Sadat_(WMDE)>. > > We already started a smooth transition of our roles: while Mohammed will > become the main person in charge of community communications for the > Wikidata and Wikibase communities, I will focus more on organizing > Wikidata-related events and supporting community members with their own > events and projects. As you may have noticed, Mohammed already took over > editing the weekly newsletter > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>, monitoring > the social media, and various announcements for Wikidata and Wikibase. As > for myself, I will not disappear completely from the Wikidata channels: I > will keep supporting Mohammed on community communication, for example with > projects like the Wikidata Bridge > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge>, in which I’ve been > involved since the start. > > During this transition phase, we will review and improve our existing > communication processes, and you can for example give feedback on the > experience you had while reporting bugs or feature requests > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team/Process_review_2020>. > Feel free to reach out to Mohammed if you have any questions regarding > Wikidata’s > development roadmap > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan>. > > I’m looking forward to continuing working with you on various projects: > feel free to contact me if you want to discuss Wikidata-related events, > training, online events, or any other ideas you have in mind to gather the > Wikidata community and onboard new editors. > > Cheers, > -- > Léa Lacroix > Community Engagement Coordinator > > 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 > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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