Welcome Lydia! &nbsp;Happy to see you on doing great work for Wiki Data @WMDE.<br><br>Best<br>Alolita<br><br>__<br>Alolita Sharma<br>Wikimedia Foundation<br><br>----- Reply message -----<br>From: &quot;Lydia Pintscher&quot; &lt;lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de&gt;<br>To: &lt;foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org&gt;, &lt;wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org&gt;, &lt;wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org&gt;<br>Subject: [Wikitech-l] introduction (community communications for Wikidata)<br>Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 9:13 am<br><br><br>Hi everyone!<br><br>I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I&#39;m Lydia and just<br>started working for Wikimedia Germany. Some of you might know me from<br>my work in Free Software projects.<br><br>I&#39;ll be a part of the team working on Wikidata<br>(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata) - the goal of the project is<br>to create something similar to Wiki Commons for data). It&#39;s a huge<br>undertaking for the German and global community. Wikidata is a project<br>I am passionate about and I am even more passionate about doing it<br>right. Doing it right in this case obviously means making sure<br>everyone&#39;s input is heard and taken into consideration. My<br>responsibility will be exactly that - working with all of you to make<br>it a successful project. A lot of things concerning how, when and<br>where this will be used in Wikipedia are still up for discussion and<br>decisions need to be found in the community. I will be here to<br>facilitate this.<br><br>I assume many of you have not heard from me before so let me tell you<br>a bit about myself. I studied computer science at the Karlsruhe<br>Institute of Technology. There I worked on a program to plan<br>robot-assisted laser surgeries on human skulls and wrote my diploma<br>thesis on collaborative and transparent Free Software development. I&#39;m<br>passionate about enabling people to make awesome happen around Free<br>Culture. I&#39;ve spent most of my spare time in the last 7 years on<br>community work in KDE (http://kde.org). This includes running its<br>mentoring programs, co-founding its community working group, serving<br>on the board of the non-profit behind it and generally making sure<br>everything is running smoothly. I&#39;ve also helped out other projects<br>occasionally like Kubuntu, VLC/VideoLan and openSUSE in that position.<br>Not long ago I released a free book called Open Advice<br>(http://open-advice.org) that is a collaborative effort to make it<br>easier for people to start contributing to Free Software. You probably<br>know 4 of the authors from around Wikipedia. When it comes to<br>MediaWiki I have done developer engagement for Semantic MediaWiki Plus<br>for the last two years and am on the steering committee of the<br>non-profit behind Semantic MediaWiki. Due to my day only having 24<br>hours (even if some people claim otherwise) I have not had a chance to<br>get into contributing to Wikipedia. Thankfully that&#39;s going to change<br>now. (As a very regular user: Thank you!)<br><br>For the next days/weeks my focus will be:<br>* collecting ideas/doubts/other input for Wikidata that you already<br>have for me now (I&#39;ll work through any existing discussions I can find<br>- if you want to make sure I see something please do send me a link.)<br>* creating some resources to explain the project better<br>* setting up some infrastructure to keep everyone updated on the<br>status and able to contribute<br>* work on collecting input in a structured manner and addressing it together<br><br>If you have any questions please let me know. I&#39;ll be around on the<br>English and German Wikipedia, IRC, XMPP, Skype or whatever else you<br>prefer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE) ).<br>You can subscribe to the Wikidata mailing list at<br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l and join the<br>IRC channel #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode.<br><br><br>Cheers<br>Lydia, who is really looking forward to working with you<br><br>-- <br>Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher<br>Community Communications for Wikidata<br><br>Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.<br>Eisenacher Straße 2<br>10777 Berlin<br>www.wikimedia.de<br><br>Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.<br><br>Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg<br>unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das<br>Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Wikitech-l mailing list<br>Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org<br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l