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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:

Maintainers needed

There is a need for new active, long-term maintainers for all Wikimedia features inside and around OpenRefine:

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.