Outreachy 21 Winter Internship

Right before I started my internship with Wikimedia Foundation I didn’t quite know what to expect. The goal was easy enough to understand: to automatize the matching of Wikipedia articles to either existing or new Wikidata items. But the way to achieve this wasn’t so clear; in fact, we were given freedom to choose the…

When I started working with this project, I remember having this curiosity: how does someone help automatize the matching and creation of standardized entries of information, when your source for that information comes in an almost free, prose-style article? This is when my first and biggest obstacle arose: what direction to take to achieve this…

I guess introductions are always a bit awkward. There’s something ‘different’ about building a self-overview for others. My name is Alejandro (usual handle A1exGP), and from the outside I’m a physicist-turned-developer. I have a deep love for problem-solving and a burning imperative for optimizing stuff. Don’t spend much of my time thinking ‘Can it be…