OpenRefine/Activities
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OpenRefine is a free data wrangling tool that can be used to process, manipulate and clean tabular (spreadsheet) data and connect it with knowledge bases ("spreadsheets on steroids" / "a swiss army knife for data"). It is widely used by librarians, in the cultural sector, by journalists and scientists, and is taught in many curricula and workshops around the world.
Help needed
OpenRefine is made by volunteers too. You can help by:
- providing user support, for instance on the platforms listed on the Contact page;
- training new and existing users;
- translating:
- improving OpenRefine's official documentation or Wikimedia documentation here or on Wikimedia Commons;
- getting involved in the development of the tool.
Maintainers needed
There is a need for new active, long-term maintainers for all Wikimedia features inside and around OpenRefine:
- OpenRefine's Wikimedia features, specifically, Wikidata (Wikibase) and Wikimedia Commons feature requests and bug fixes
- OpenRefine's Wikimedia Commons extension
- Wikidata-specific features in the Wikibase reconciliation endpoint
- the Wikimedia Commons reconciliation service
The development of new Wikimedia features in OpenRefine also depend on the initiative and active contribution of new dedicated and long-term maintainers.
If you want to take up (some of) this work, you can for instance get started on any of the open tasks on GitHub related to Wikimedia features in OpenRefine: Wikibase tasks and Wikimedia Commons tasks. See OpenRefine's technical reference for onboarding as a developer.