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July 2024
- Presented our activities and progress at the Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour (transcript available)
- Gave a short introduction of the team and activities of the previous 12 months to Wikimedia Deutschland.
June 2024
- An initial findings and interim progress report of the research project was presented to WMF and WMDE stakeholders.
- Senior software engineer interviews were concluded and 2 offers made (and accepted).
- Community interviews as part of phase 2 of the research project were concluded.
May 2024
- Joely Rooke joined the team as a Software Engineer.
- Danny Benjafield attended the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 in Tallinn, Estonia.
- Community interviews as part of phase 2 of the research project were conducted.
April 2024
- The interview sign-up survey at LamaPoll has now been closed. Thank you to everyone who signed up.
- Danny Benjafield facilitates a whole day of sessions covering how Wikidata is integrated into sibling projects at the Leveling Up Days 2024.
- Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour. Ifeatu presented the activities for Q1 2024. Read the transcript here
- WIT enjoy a Team Day of collaborative workshops, planning and building team-morale.
- Q2 2024 - plans and goals
- Team retro
- Engineer onboarding
January 24
- WIT (formerly WD4WMP) had its 2nd Team Days with a series of workshops.
- Team Retrospective
- With the addition of Cynthia, we went over the Roles and Tasks of the different team members in our DACI Matrix.
- We reviewed the Backlog and outstanding tasks and sorted them into Buckets.
- Team Goals and the 2024 Roadmap
- The team discussed the hiring process for our Software engineers: expectations of the hiring process, roles and timelines.
- The team welcomes its Engineering Manager, Cynthia Makonyango. Cynthia's role is crucial for the future work of our team as she will:
- assist in the hiring of Software Engineers
- assess the size and scope of developmental tasks
- oversee Rituals for the Software Engineering team
- liase closely with other team members to ensure that goals are aligned
October 2023
- We opened a LamaPoll survey form to collect contact details for Wikimedians interested in sharing their experiences using Wikidata in the other Wikimedia projects.
September 23
- Elisha Cohen joined the team as UX/UI Designer and Researcher.
July 23
- Danny Benjafield joins the team and Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager
May 23
- Ifeatu Nnaobi joins the team and Wikimedia Deutschland as Product Manager