The Wikidata Software Collaboration Team (Indonesia) is a development team formed through a joint collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland. This team aims to empower Indonesia's lexicographical data community by making it easier to edit and contribute to Wikidata, especially for mobile users. Additionally, the team also focuses on providing technical assistance and resources to various language communities in Indonesia, helping them to start and maintain their own lexicographical data projects.
In the short term, the team will create a microcontribution application to support contributions to Wikidata Lexemes and educate the community on making technical requests. By working closely with editors and reusers, the team aims to build a strong technical capacities in Indonesia and ensure ongoing collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland and other stakeholders in the Wikimedia Movement.
Igbo Wikimedians User Group
Igbo Wikimedians is a group of Wikimedians that are committed to working on various wiki projects related to Igbo language and culture. The user group is organizing projects around community building in the Igbo community, content improvement for Wikipedia and its sister project and has established its own Wikidata hub in 2021.
The Igbo Wikimedia User Group and their program of the Wiki Mentor Africa is aiming at building up technical capacity in African Wikimedia communities by mentoring African developers for Wikidata Tool Development. Wikimedia Deutschland will support the user group in the implementation of their project and mentoring program.
Wiki Movement Brazil User Group
Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB) is a Brazilian non-profit association affiliated to the Wikimedia Foundation. Founded in 2013, WMB seeks, among other goals: to amplify, improve and diversify the content and community among Wikimedia projects, especially Wikipedia; and support the role of social organizations in the open knowledge ecosystem.
WMB has a long history of working with Wikidata, using, adapting and developing tools and processes to integrate the platform in several initiatives, mainly in GLAM and Educational contexts, but also acting on building capacity and sharing processes and learnings with the wider community. This project aims to develop a new version of QuickStatements that centers sustainability, is integrated with the latest developments of the Wikidata REST API, easier to maintain and contribute to, and well tested and improved through community feedback.
Wikidata 'One Click Info' Extension's team
The Wikidata 'One Click Info' Extension's team is a group of developers, that is committed to work together to build a browser extension for Wikidata to make Wikidata's data more accessible and easy to retrieve to a wider audience. This group has been purposely formed to work on the browser extension Wikidata 'One Click Info'.
The extension is planned to run on Chrome and Firefox browsers. When activated, it will allow the user to get a quick summary of the Wikidata item or label highlighted. By giving the user the opportunity to get the information they need without leaving their tab or browser, the extension aims to faciliate the usage of Wikidata.
The Wikidata 'One Click Info' Extension's team is happy to have the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group as their fiscal sponsor, making this partnership between them and WMDE possible.
Wikimedia Deutschland
Wikimedia Deutschland has been founded in 2004 as a member’s association and is located in Berlin, Germany. Wikimedia Deutschland support communities like the Wikipedia community, develop software for Wikimedia projects and the ecosystem of Free Knowledge, and wants to improve the political and legal framework for Wikipedia and for Free Knowledge in general.
Specifically, Wikimedia Deutschland has been working on the development of Wikidata since 2012. Since then, an active and vibrant community of volunteer editors and programmers, re-users, data donors, affiliates and more has formed around Wikidata.
Wikimedia Deutschland will be responsible for the administrative setup of those collaborations and the communication with Arcadia. We are also happy to share our experiences and knowledge about establishing software teams, software development in the Wikidata/Wikibase environment, the Wikidata community and providing support for emerging tech communities.
Wikimedia Indonesia, is a non-profit organization based in Jakarta, Indonesia and established in 2008, is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development & dissemination of knowledge in Indonesian and other languages spoken in Indonesia. Since then, Wikimedia Indonesia has supported the development of 14 Wikipedias in the languages spoken in Indonesia, 12 regional Wikimedian communities spread across the country, and two Wikimedia project-based communities.
From June 2022 until October 2023, Wikimedia Indonesia was part of the Software Collaboration for Wikidata project. During this time, Wikimedia Indonesia aimed to build a software team of their own with the goal of building tools to help under-resourced language communities contributing to the flourishing of their languages online through lexicographical data, and also involving the local language communities in contributing to lexemes in Wikidata. The full statement on the end of the collaboration provided by Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland can be read here.
