Dear Wikidata Community,
Wikidata is a treasure trove of data — data we would love to be brought to
light and used for the benefit of the Wikimedia community and beyond!
In order to support that, Wikimedia Deutschland is excited to announce the
launch of a Call for Software Contributions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Open_Call>
as part of the Software Collaboration for Wikidata program
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata>,
funded by the Arcadia Fund <https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/>. The Software
Collaboration for Wikidata program fosters collaboration with the purpose
of enabling partners from within the Wikimedia Movement to contribute to
the software development of Wikidata and Wikibase in a sustainable and
scalable way. With this program Wikimedia Deutschland wants to explore ways
to create a distributed software development environment within the
Wikimedia Movement. We believe that software is best built by the
communities in which the needs for digital tools arise.
About the Call:
This Call for Software Contributions aims to promote collaboration within
the Wikimedia Movement by inviting affiliates to develop software solutions
leveraging the power of the Wikidata Rest API
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API>. Through this, Wikimedia
Deutschland supports advancing the capabilities of the Wikidata Rest API to
enable the creation of applications (anything from mobile apps to desktop
apps to websites or services) that provide value not only to the Wikimedia
community but also to broader audiences.
With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make
Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.
Application deadline is April 21th, 23:59 (GMT+1) (check local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1713735900>).
Learn more about this Call on our project page on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Open_Call>
.
We look forward to receiving your exciting project proposals and
collaborating with you to advance the capabilities of Wikidata. If you have
any comments, suggestions or questions please use the call’s talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ASoftware_Collaboration_for_Wikidata%2FOpen_Call#Call_for_Software_Contributions>
to get in contact with us.
Sincerely,
Maria Lechner