WIT/Updates

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29 April 2024 - The interview sign-up survey at LamaPoll has now been closed. Thank you to everyone who signed up.

13 April 2024 - Danny Benjafield facilitates a whole day of sessions covering how Wikidata is integrated into sibling projects at the Leveling Up Days 2024.

10 April 2024 - Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour. Ifeatu presented the activities for Q1 2024. Read the transcript here

08 April 2024 - WIT enjoy a Team Day of collaborative workshops, planning and building team-morale.

Q2 2024 - plans and goals
Team retro
Engineer onboarding

29 + 31 Jan 24 - WIT (formerly WD4WMP) had its 2nd Team Days with a series of workshops.

Our 1st Day (29.01.24)
- Our Team Retro
- 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.

Our 2nd day (31.01.24)
- Ifeatu reiterated our Team Goals and the 2024 Roadmap
- The team discussed the hiring process for our Software engineers: expectations of the hiring process, roles and timelines.
- Our 2nd Naming Workshop took place with the team deciding on our current name: Wikidata Integrations Team.

15 January 24 - 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

23 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.

01 September 23 - Elisha Cohen transferred into the team as our UX/UI Designer and Researcher.

01 July 23 - Danny Benjafield joins the team and Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager

01 May 23 - Ifeatu Nnaobi joins the team and Wikimedia Deutschland as Product Manager