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Denny Vrandečić

Denny is the Head of Special Projects at the Wikimedia Foundation, leading the development of Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. He is the founder of Wikidata and the Croatian Wikipedia, and was formerly an elected member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation. He received a PhD from the KIT, where he did research on the topic of collaborative knowledge engineering. He is Croatian, grew up in Germany, and now lives in Berkeley, CA, in the United States.