Lydia Pintscher
Portfolio Lead For Wikidata
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolLydia Pintscher is a seasoned leader in open knowledge infrastructure with 18 years of experience shaping Wikidata and community-facing technical projects. As Portfolio Lead for Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland, she combines product management, community communication, and developer engagement to steer one of the largest collaborative knowledge bases. Her career reflects deep expertise in easing disruptive change for volunteer communities—translating technical roadmaps into clear communication and smoother adoption. Based in Berlin and trained in computer science at Universität Karlsruhe, she pairs technical grounding with a rare skill for cultivating contributor ecosystems and improving usability for semantic technologies.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
German, English, Latin, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (68)
data-wrangling10
wikidata10
crossword10
java10
rdf10
reconciliation10
schema-org10
structured-data10
json-ld10
wikibase9
python9
schema9
openrefine9
1c9
journalism9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Open-Advice/Open-Advice-website
Dec 2011 - Jan 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 6 years 1 month
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