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