Graph Consultant

at Wikimedia Foundation
Location Nairobi, Kenya
Date Posted October 18, 2021
Category Consultancy
Job Type Full-time
Currency KES

Description

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit, and share from the Wikimedia sites. Above all, we support the communities of volunteers around the world who edit, improve, and add knowledge across Wikimedia projects.

You are responsible for:

  • Documenting the criteria that will be used to evaluate alternative RDF stores to replace our use of Blazegraph.
  • Listing and reviewing potential alternate solutions in light of the criteria defined above. Experimenting with the most promising solutions to validate decisions.
  • Time permitting, implementing a new version of WDQS based on an alternate RDF store.

Skills and Experience:

  • Strong familiarity with Graph databases and / or RDF stores
  • Proven track record of analyzing complex processes and advising on strategy
  • Experience working with large-scale services

Qualities that are important to us:

  • Comfortable making trade-off decisions
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

  • Direct experience working with Wikidata Query Service
  • Understanding of the free culture, free software, or online rights movements
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