Wikidata International Software Collaboration

Description	By moving the responsibility for an essential part of the Wikidata core software to an additional movement entity, in this specific case Lexems and Wikimedia Indonesia, WMDE wants to achieve 5 things: 1. Skill sharing 2. Resource redistribution away from the global north 3. Shifting of power, responsibility and leadership 5. The creation of better products that truly suit the needs of people most affected by them. 6. Taking first concrete steps to turn our (WMDEs) core software infrastructure into something that is easily expandable by parties who are not sitting with us in Berlin. To be very clear: this is an experiment in many ways from which we hope to learn many things and ideally will be able to learn how things like this are being done well.
Primary recommendation	6. Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Secondary recommendation(s)	9. Innovate in Free Knowledge • 2. Improve User Experience • 6. Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Regional focus	Global
Stage	Execution / Implementation
Seeking collaboration?	Yes
Collaboration needs	Exchange to learn from each other • Partnership to approach a non-Wikimedia entity • Replicate/Adapt our activity somewhere else
Contact person	Maria Heuschkel, Franziska Heine
Wikimedia affiliation	Affiliate (user group, thematic org, chapter)
Affiliate	Wikimedia Deutschland (Germany)