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[wmfanon9973]

Wikidata is maintained by Wikimedia Deutschland (https://www.wikimedia.de/), not the Wikimedia Foundation.

[ryan_lane → wmfanon9973]

The Wikidata software is extensions to Mediawiki (which is maintained by WMF), and though the extensions are primarily developed by a Wikimedia chapter (Wikimedia Deutschland), it's disingenuous to say that Wikidata is fully maintained by them. Its operations, at the very least, are maintained by WMF, and quite a bit of development and a large amount of code review was done by WMF.

Similarly, the test/dev for Wikidata is part of Wikimedia Cloud services (which I created). That environment is also WMF run.

[zinekeller → wmfanon9973]

Can you cite any evidence (even in German)? The only thing I'm sure that was done by WMDE is about Wikivoyage (which is definitely more complicated than it seems, mainly because the English version was a fork of WikiTravel).

[bawolff → zinekeller]

You could look at the git commit history, and notice how most of the names are wm-de employees.

Its not like its 100% exclusive, but the majority of wikidata engineers are wm-de. Operational responsibilities are a bit more shared.

Also i hardly would call it a vanity project given how popular it is.

I also dont recall wikivoyage having that much to do with WM-DE.

If you want a source, i guess you could look at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Plan_2... but its a little light on details

[afandian → zinekeller]

Wikidata, both the software and the platform generally, is definitely developed at Wikimedia Deutschland. I’ve met a few of the people involved.

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE