Abstract Wikipedia/Updates/2023-05-17

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Abstract Wikipedia Updates

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Thank you, Julia!

Julia Kieserman had joined the Wikimedia Foundation and the Abstract Wikipedia team in the latter half of 2021. She had made significant contributions to the user interface and the interaction design of Wikifunctions. She has been particularly instrumental in working together with the Design System team, thus ensuring that Wikifunctions has a solid, common foundation in Wikimedia-wide technologies such as Codex.

I want to let Julia speak in her words:

So long, Abstract!

It’s been an honor to be part of a project with a mission as important and ambitious as the Abstract team’s mission. Trying to do anything in a way that works for all languages and best serves a diversity of people and perspectives is certainly not an easy thing to do, and I am grateful for the doggedness of this team in the face of that challenge. I’ve learned a lot of valuable lessons that I’m excited to carry with me to the next adventure.

Cheers to a successful Wikifunctions launch - I’m excited to see how the community helps transform it into something beyond our imaginations.

We are sad to see Julia leave the team, but we are happy to know that Julia is staying with the Wikimedia Foundation, and will support the Trust and Safety team in their numerous and important tasks as a senior engineer.

Thank you, Julia, for everything you did!