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 (46)
reconciliation10
java10
structured-data10
data-wrangling10
wikidata10
data-science9
openrefine9
wikibase9
1c9
schema-org9
data-analysis9
journalism9
json-ld9
rdf9
linux8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Open-Advice/Open-Advice-website
Dec 2011 - Jan 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 6 years 1 month
advice
Open-Advice/Open-Advice
Apr 2011 - Apr 2013
the Open-Advice book
Contributions:340 commits in 1 year 11 months
advice
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