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October 2024

  • We resolved Phabricator ticket: T66315 and moved the Wikidata Item sitelink from General to In Other Projects of the sidebar menu.

September 2024

August 2024

  • Ifeatu Nnaobi and Danny Benjafield attended Wikimania 2024 Katowice (Poland) where we summarised some high-level findings of our research project during the Poster Session. (Our Poster / All Posters)
  • We are thrilled to have our latest colleague, Sean Leong, join the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team.

July 2024

  • Presented our activities and progress at the Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour (transcript available)
  • Gave a short introduction of the team and activities of the previous 12 months to Wikimedia Deutschland.
  • Published a Community Report of our activities over the last 12 months.

June 2024

May 2024

April 2024

  • Registration for the Community interviews portion of the research project was closed. Thank you to everyone who signed up.
  • Danny Benjafield facilitates a day of sessions covering how Wikidata is integrated into sibling projects at the Leveling Up Days 2024.
  • Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour. Ifeatu presented the activities for Q1 2024. Read the transcript here
  • WIT enjoy a Team Day of collaborative workshops, planning and building team-morale.
  • Q2 2024 - plans and goals
  • Team retro
  • Engineer onboarding

January 24

  • We presented our Q4 2023 activities to the community at the Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour. Read the transcript.
  • WIT (formerly WD4WMP) had its 2nd Team Days with a series of workshops.
    • Team Retrospective
    • With the addition of Cynthia, we went over the Roles and Tasks of the different team members in our DACI Matrix.
    • We reviewed the Backlog and outstanding tasks and sorted them into Buckets.
    • Team Goals and the 2024 Roadmap
    • The team discussed the hiring process for our Software engineers: expectations of the hiring process, roles and timelines.
  • The team welcomes its Engineering Manager, Cynthia Makonyango. Cynthia's role is crucial for the future work of our team as she will:
    • assist in the hiring of Software Engineers
    • assess the size and scope of developmental tasks
    • oversee Rituals for the Software Engineering team
    • liase closely with other team members to ensure that goals are aligned

December 2023

October 2023

  • Registration for community members to be interviewed on their experiences using Wikidata in the other Wikimedia projects was opened.
  • We presented our quarterly activities at the Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour. [[d:Wikidata:Events/Telegram_office_hour_2023-10-18|Read the transcript}}

September 23

July 23

  • Danny Benjafield joins the team and Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager

May 23

  • Ifeatu Nnaobi joins the team and Wikimedia Deutschland as Product Manager