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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

• Hiring for 2 Senior software engineers was concluded, starting in Q3 2024. This will fulfil one of our 2024 Program Goals to hire a complete development team.
• As part of our research project into the state of Usage of Wikidata in the other wikis, we held a series of interviews with Community members.

May 2024

• Joely Rooke joined the team as a Software Engineer.
• Danny Benjafield and Cynthia Makonyango attended the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 in Tallinn, Estonia.

April 2024

• Registration for the Community interviews portion of the research project was closed. Thank you to everyone who signed up.
• Danny Benjafield facilitates a 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

• We presented our Q4 2023 activities to the community at the Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour. Read the transcript.
• 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

December 2023

• As part of the Data Modelling Days 2023, we hosted a feedback session on "How to help enforce consistent modelling with automated list generation?". Video / Notes

October 2023

• Registration for community members to be interviewed on their experiences using Wikidata in the other Wikimedia projects was opened.
• We presented our quarterly activities at the Wikidata+Wikibase Office Hour. [[d:Wikidata:Events/Telegram_office_hour_2023-10-18|Read the transcript}}

September 23

• Elisha Cohen joined the team as UX/UI Designer and Researcher.
• Danny Benjafield and Ifeatu Nnaobi attended WikiCon 2023, a Wikimedia Conference for the German-speaking community.

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