Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects/Updates
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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
- Hiring for 2 Senior software engineers was concluded, starting in Q3 2024. This will fulfil one of our 2024 Program Goals to hire a complete development team.
- As part of our research project into the state of Usage of Wikidata in the other wikis, we held a series of interviews with Community members.
May 2024
- Joely Rooke joined the team as a Software Engineer.
- Danny Benjafield and Cynthia Makonyango attended the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 in Tallinn, Estonia.
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
- As part of the Data Modelling Days 2023, we hosted a feedback session on "How to help enforce consistent modelling with automated list generation?". Video / Notes
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
- Elisha Cohen joined the team as UX/UI Designer and Researcher.
- Danny Benjafield and Ifeatu Nnaobi attended WikiCon 2023, a Wikimedia Conference for the German-speaking community.
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