Hello folks,
An information that you could find useful : since the beginning of Wikidata, the project and the development team (led by Wikimedia Germany) were funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, through the Funds Dissemination Committee, and by third parties. From now, the Wikimedia Foundation will directly fund expenses for Wikidata software development. The two organizations signed an agreement to have direct funding at least for the next 3 years. This is good news, showing the strong support of our project by the Foundation and will allow us more stability in the future.
You can read the full blog post here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/04/supporting-the-future-of-wikidata/
Thanks for making Wikidata more and more awesome every day :)
Excellent, that's really good news! Congratulations!
-- Hay
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hello folks,
An information that you could find useful : since the beginning of Wikidata, the project and the development team (led by Wikimedia Germany) were funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, through the Funds Dissemination Committee, and by third parties. From now, the Wikimedia Foundation will directly fund expenses for Wikidata software development. The two organizations signed an agreement to have direct funding at least for the next 3 years. This is good news, showing the strong support of our project by the Foundation and will allow us more stability in the future.
You can read the full blog post here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/04/supporting-the-future-of-wikidata/
Thanks for making Wikidata more and more awesome every day :)
-- Léa Lacroix Community Communication Manager 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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These are the news I want to see when I drink my morning coffee! Thank you for the good news! :)
L.
Il 05 ott 2016 10:20, "Léa Lacroix" lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de ha scritto:
Hello folks,
An information that you could find useful : since the beginning of Wikidata, the project and the development team (led by Wikimedia Germany) were funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, through the Funds Dissemination Committee, and by third parties. From now, the Wikimedia Foundation will directly fund expenses for Wikidata software development. The two organizations signed an agreement to have direct funding at least for the next 3 years. This is good news, showing the strong support of our project by the Foundation and will allow us more stability in the future.
You can read the full blog post here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ 2016/10/04/supporting-the-future-of-wikidata/
Thanks for making Wikidata more and more awesome every day :)
-- Léa Lacroix Community Communication Manager 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.
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Wow - nice birthday present! Happy Birthday Wikidata!
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hello folks,
An information that you could find useful : since the beginning of Wikidata, the project and the development team (led by Wikimedia Germany) were funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, through the Funds Dissemination Committee, and by third parties. From now, the Wikimedia Foundation will directly fund expenses for Wikidata software development. The two organizations signed an agreement to have direct funding at least for the next 3 years. This is good news, showing the strong support of our project by the Foundation and will allow us more stability in the future.
You can read the full blog post here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ 2016/10/04/supporting-the-future-of-wikidata/
Thanks for making Wikidata more and more awesome every day :)
-- Léa Lacroix Community Communication Manager 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.
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Very glad to see this finally happen. Congratulations to all involved. :-)
Dan
On 5 October 2016 at 01:04, Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hello folks,
An information that you could find useful : since the beginning of Wikidata, the project and the development team (led by Wikimedia Germany) were funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, through the Funds Dissemination Committee, and by third parties. From now, the Wikimedia Foundation will directly fund expenses for Wikidata software development. The two organizations signed an agreement to have direct funding at least for the next 3 years. This is good news, showing the strong support of our project by the Foundation and will allow us more stability in the future.
You can read the full blog post here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ 2016/10/04/supporting-the-future-of-wikidata/
Thanks for making Wikidata more and more awesome every day :)
-- Léa Lacroix Community Communication Manager 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.
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Hoi, With more involvement from the WMF itself, we may finally see them consider some better integration with Wikipedia. It is the easiest and most obvious quality improvement possible for both projects. It will be similar to improving the interwiki links. Thanks, GerardM
On 5 October 2016 at 20:35, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Very glad to see this finally happen. Congratulations to all involved. :-)
Dan
On 5 October 2016 at 01:04, Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hello folks,
An information that you could find useful : since the beginning of Wikidata, the project and the development team (led by Wikimedia Germany) were funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, through the Funds Dissemination Committee, and by third parties. From now, the Wikimedia Foundation will directly fund expenses for Wikidata software development. The two organizations signed an agreement to have direct funding at least for the next 3 years. This is good news, showing the strong support of our project by the Foundation and will allow us more stability in the future.
You can read the full blog post here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/201 6/10/04/supporting-the-future-of-wikidata/
Thanks for making Wikidata more and more awesome every day :)
-- Léa Lacroix Community Communication Manager 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.
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
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