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. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list -- wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikidata-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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