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''Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!'' -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)
 * Community updates
 * Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd webchat
 * Several Commons community members are working on ways to integrate Wikidata in Wikimedia Commons. While this is not full-fledged structured data yet, this work helps to prepare for future conversion of data, and helps to understand how Wikidata and Commons can work better together.
 * Thanks to Jarekt and other contributors, some Commons templates can now be filled via Wikidata: ( Phabricator) and  ( Phabricator). Work is ongoing on the  template ( Phabricator).
 * Thanks to Mike Peel and others, Wikidata-powered infoboxes can now be added to Commons categories, with the template . ( Example)
 * Multichill is working on an experimental workflow to upload images to Commons via Wikidata (and using metadata from Wikidata). See a part of it here.
 * Things to do / input and feedback requests
 * Join the community focus group!
 * Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
 * Contribute to the next newsletter.
 * Discussions held
 * Conversation about licensing and copyright modeling.
 * High-level discussion on ontology for Commons.
 * Review first designs for multilingual captions.
 * IRC office hour, 13 February
 * Events
 * Wikimedia Conference, Berlin, 20-22 April (+ Learning Days 18-19 April): several sessions and workshops around Structured Commons
 * EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, 15-16 May: several presentations + a full workshop day on Monday 14 May about Wikidata and Structured Commons
 * Wikimedia Hackathon, Barcelona, 18-20 May: Structured Commons as a focus area.
 * Partners and allies
 * We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!
 * Research
 * The research about GLAM contributions to Wikimedia Commons is concluded. A blog post on the Wikimedia blog provides a summary, and you can read the full results on meta.wikimedia.org.
 * Development
 * Prototypes will be available for Multilingual Captions soon.
 * Stay up to date!
 * Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
 * Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.
 * Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! The date for next quarter will be announced soon.