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From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Subject: [Commons-l] Welcome Amanda Bittaker as the Program Manager for
Structured Commons
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <
commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Amanda Bittaker <abittaker(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi Wikidata and Commons Communities,
I’m excited to let you all know that Amanda Bittaker (cc'ed) has joined the
Audiences (formerly Product) team at the Wikimedia Foundation as the
Program Manager for the Structured Data on Commons program. She will be
working closely with teams from the Wikimedia Foundation, the Wikidata team
at Wikimedia Deutschland, and the communities to complete the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation grant [1], expanding the capabilities of Commons to make
it easier for people and institutions to find, share, and reuse Commons
content.
Many people may have met Amanda already. She joined the Foundation in
November 2014, working with the Learning & Evaluation team to help wiki
program organizers’ design, manage, and evaluate their programs. During
that time, she also partnered with engineers to build program tools such as
the Program and Events Dashboard[2] and the Global Metrics Magic Button [3].
Before joining the Foundation, Amanda worked in the international
development industry for five years, doing finance, program design,
monitoring, and evaluation. She spent two years in South America. Once upon
a time she also ran and oversaw programs at a nonprofit bicycle education
space that operated entirely by general consensus, which taught her a lot
about collaborative and transparent program management.
She is eager to work on Structured Data on Commons, helping our communities
make Commons as useful as possible, and helping to make transitions in
processes and workflows as smooth as possible. Amanda is based in San
Francisco in the US. You can find her on the wikis or at Wikimania or the
Wikimania hackathon in Montreal. She can converse pretty well in English
and Spanish, and would like to practice her French more, but it is still
very basic.
Cheers,
Alex
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Sloan_Grant
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/How_to_
use_the_global_metrics_magic_button
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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org
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From: Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 6:10 AM
Subject: [Wikidata] New step towards structured data for Commons is now
available: federation
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
As you may know, WMF, WMDE and volunteers are working together on the
structured
data for Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data> project. We’re
currently working on a lot of technical groundwork for this project. One
big part of that is allowing the use of Wikidata’s items and properties to
describe media files on Commons. We call this feature federation. We have
now developed the necessary code for it and you can try it out on a test
system and give feedback.
We have one test wiki that represents Commons (http://structured-commons.
wmflabs.org) and another one simulating Wikidata (http://federated-wikidata.
wmflabs.org). You can see an example
<http://structured-commons.wmflabs.org/wiki/MediaInfo:M13> where the
statements use items and properties from the faked Wikidata. Feel free to
try it by adding statements to to some of the files on the test system.
(You might need to create some items on http://federated-wikidata.
wmflabs.org if they don’t exist yet. We have created a few for testing.)
If you have any questions or concern, please let us know.
Thanks,
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
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.
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