# April 9, 2026 Advisory Commitee

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/april-9-2026-advisory-commitee/2786>\
**Category:** Day-to-day project operations\
**Tags:** minute-advisory\
**Created:** [April 21, 2026, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/april-9-2026-advisory-commitee/2786 "2026-04-21T18:56:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/martin/32/7_2.png) [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/april-9-2026-advisory-commitee/2786/1 "2026-04-21T18:56:56Z")

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## Attendees

- Jan Ainali - Advisory Committee
- Julie Faure Lacroix - Advisory Committee
- Martin Magdinier - Project Manager

## Discussions

### Fundraising

- OTF application, Martin proposed to see if we can reuse the 2025 NLNet application: [Native In-App Reconciliation of Arbitrary Local Data Sets](https://openrefine.org/funding#2025-nlnet-native-in-app-reconciliation-of-arbitrary-local-data-sets)
- Martin opened [add Sovereign Tech Fellowship application + update donor page by magdmartin · Pull Request #565 · OpenRefine/openrefine.org · GitHub](https://github.com/OpenRefine/openrefine.org/pull/565) to share the Sovereign Tech Fund application and the Sloan LOI.

### Wikimedia Rate Limiting

Martin presented a summary of the conversation regarding the current Wikimedia Rate Limiting issue, and the group discussed how the Advisory Committee can help.

See the reference document and conversation

- [Wikimedia Rate Limiting Status impact on OpenRefine Reconciliation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NBP95ryQ6PAmqTDJRTtezvZloH6I5DUnQTyttF7XXio/edit?tab=t.0)
- [⚓ T419770 Intermittent errors from Wikidata reconciliation service (wikidata.reconci.link) used by OpenRefine](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419770#11788053)
- [Requests to Wikidata get rate limited because of insufficient User-Agent · Issue #7731](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/7731)

### Community call

- Next event is scheduled: **[Community call: Extension developer guidelines (April 23, 2026) - Events - OpenRefine](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/community-call-extension-developer-guidelines-april-23-2026/2772)**
- Martin scheduled posts on social media and an email outreach.