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About the Team

Wikidata Integrations Team is a Wikimedia Deutschland team created to support the existing relationships and forge new ones between Wikidata and its sibling Wikimedia projects. It is our wish to create better workflows for editors and decrease the manual workload and repetitive tasks that can be automated through Wikidata.

The team was created because Wikimedia Deutschland needed dedicated resources to focus on the potential of integrating Wikidata with the sibling projects. The team will work closely with editors, volunteer developers and other Wikimedia product teams to define our roadmap, initial projects and deliverables.

The team currently has 5 members:

• Ifeatu Nnaobi (Product Manager)
• Elisha Cohen (UX Research/Design)
• Cynthia Makonyango (Engineering Manager)
• Joely Rooke (Software Engineer)
• Danny Benjafield (Community Communications Manager)

First Steps

We have spent the first months listening to and engaging with Wikimedia communities through research interviews in order to begin mapping out how and where Wikidata is currently being used in the sibling Wikimedia projects. This will help us identify the areas where we can have the greatest impact.

The sign-up survey for our initial research interviews has recently closed (29.04.2024). We received a lot of interest from a wide spectrum of Wikimedians, and we thank everyone who signed up. We’ll be in touch with editors soon to inquire about availability for an interview.

How can I participate

If you missed the chance to sign up or haven’t received an invitation email from us, please read on to find out how you can still share your valuable insights with us.

Our focus is to understand commonly encountered problems editors face when using Wikidata in other Wikimedia projects. If this sounds like you, we would like to hear from you on our report an issue page.

If you are not sure if your feedback is appropriate, you are welcome to open a new topic on our Discussion page or reach out to the Community Communications Manager for this or any other questions.

Our survey has now closed

The interview sign-up survey at LamaPoll has now ended. We had a lot of interest from a wide spectrum of Wikimedians and we want to thank everyone who registered and we will be contacting editors shortly to ask for their availability for an interview. Due to the high number of respondents, it won’t be possible to interview everyone who signed up but we will let you know if we can’t.

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Events / Meetings

Next Events

10.07.2024 - Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour (Q3), join us to catch the latest news and developments in the Wikidata, Wikibase Suite+Cloud and Wikidata Integrations teams. Starts 17:00 UTC

Past Events

• 3-5 May: Wikimedia Hackathon – Danny and Cynthia attended the Hackathon in Tallinn, Estonia.
• 10 April: Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour – transcript available here
• 5-7 & 12-14 April: 🚀 Wikidata Levelling Up Days 🏂 – Discover our series of introduction videos about Wikidata, QuickStatements, Mix’n’Match, Listeria, how to use Wikidata on the Wikimedia projects, and many other topics in our Video Library
• Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour: Jan 17th 2024
• Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour: Oct 18th 2023
• 1 Dec 23: Feedback session on "How to help enforce consistent modelling with automated list generation?" at Data Modelling Days 2023 Video / Notes
• 28 – 29 Oct 23: WikidataCon 2023
• 29 Sep – 01 Oct 23: WikiCon 2023

Contact

• Community Communications: Danny Benjafield (talk)
• Phabricator Board
• Talk to us about your Wikidata integration issues in other Wikimedia projects on our Add Issue page.