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Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board
Community-selected Wikimedia Foundation board member Denny Vrandečić has resigned from the WMF board. He announced his decision on the Wikimedia-l mailing list on April 8, saying:

In a post to the Wikimedia Announcements mailing list made three minutes later, Wikimedia Foundation board chairman Patricio Lorente said,

Denny, who has been a Wikipedian since 2003, is the co-developer of Semantic MediaWiki and was the first administrator of the Croatian Wikipedia. In 2010, he worked with various Wikimedia stakeholders to develop the first proposal and secure funding for the structured data project Wikidata. In 2012, he became the founding project director for Wikidata, recruiting and leading the first Wikidata team out of Wikimedia Deutschland. He joined the WMF board in July 2015, as one of three community-recommended members accepted on the board that year. His departure, along with that of Arnnon Geshuri in January 2016, means that two of the ten WMF board seats are currently unfilled. 

Brief notes

 * March Metrics and Activities Meeting: A video of the Wikimedia Foundation's March 2016 Metrics and Activities Meeting is available on YouTube.