Dear Wikibase community,

We would like to inform you about our current research and invite you to participate!

We're currently doing a Knowledge Equity in Linked Open Data Research (in short: KELOD) where we try to better understand how the use of Wikidata, Wikibase Suite, and Wikibase Cloud both support knowledge equity and create barriers to knowledge equity when people are contributing historically and structurally marginalized knowledge and perspectives.

What is learned in this project will directly inform WMDE product decisions toward removing barriers and better supporting knowledge equity in the Wikimedia LOD ecosystem. You can read more about this on a meta page that we will publish next Monday.

We would like to talk with people for an hour or an hour and a half, or the time they have available, about their experience contributing knowledge using the products mentioned above.

In short, these interviews will be:

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fairly compensated -

recorded and documented (only with permission of participants) -

take place between February 9 and March 29, 2024 -

stored on Design Research Services Google drive (until the project ends May 31, 2024, when it will be deleted) -

deleted at any time upon participant’s request. -

summarized for findings (participants will remain anonymous unless otherwise requested)

If you are interested in participating in this project, please fill out this survey https://forms.gle/2foXicqD5kt1486x7

Thank you for your participation!

Valerie Wollinger (She/Her) Community Communications Manager Wikibase''

Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0https://wikimedia.de

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