Hello all,
For the past four years, I’ve been working in the software department at
Wikimedia Germany, taking care of the communication between the Wikidata
development team <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:DEV> and the
community, announcing new features, collecting bug reports and feature
requests from you. On top of that, I’ve been coordinating various projects,
bringing the WikidataCon
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMDE/WikidataCon/Report#Introduction>
to
life, coordinating the Wikidata decentralized birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday>, creating a
prototype for Wikidata Train the Trainers
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Train_the_trainers>, and taking
care of various onsite or online workshops, meetups and other events.
Over the past years, with the Wikidata community growing, the development
team growing as well, more and more events happening, and the ecosystem of
Wikibase users forming a distinct group with different needs, it became
pretty clear that one person was not enough to keep track of everything and
provide the best support for the Wikidata editors. That’s the reason why,
earlier this year, we had the pleasure to announce the arrival of a new
colleague who you already know from being an active Wikidata editor, Mohammed
Sadat (WMDE) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mohammed_Sadat_(WMDE)>.
We already started a smooth transition of our roles: while Mohammed will
become the main person in charge of community communications for the
Wikidata and Wikibase communities, I will focus more on organizing
Wikidata-related events and supporting community members with their own
events and projects. As you may have noticed, Mohammed already took over
editing the weekly newsletter
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>, monitoring
the social media, and various announcements for Wikidata and Wikibase. As
for myself, I will not disappear completely from the Wikidata channels: I
will keep supporting Mohammed on community communication, for example with
projects like the Wikidata Bridge
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge>, in which I’ve been
involved since the start.
During this transition phase, we will review and improve our existing
communication processes, and you can for example give feedback on the
experience you had while reporting bugs or feature requests
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team/Process_review_2020>.
Feel free to reach out to Mohammed if you have any questions regarding
Wikidata’s
development roadmap
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan>.
I’m looking forward to continuing working with you on various projects:
feel free to contact me if you want to discuss Wikidata-related events,
training, online events, or any other ideas you have in mind to gather the
Wikidata community and onboard new editors.
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement Coordinator
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.