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Esther Wanjiku

Ngangaesther

ngangaesther8gmail.com

Best way to connect: Via telegram or whatsapp

Wikimedia community user group Kenya

Participating as: Indivudal

Kenya • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Saturday, Sunday (12 - 16 UTC, 17 - 20 UTC)

Can dedicate: Between one (1) hour and three (3) hours per Month

Languages: English

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikiquote → collection of quotations, Wikidata → knowledge database

Areas of interests: Climate Change and sustainability, Culture, heritage or GLAM

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: for now l am not involved in any training program

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Through formal training, By being mentored by an organization with more experience

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Financial planning and management • Skills to better connect with networks within the Free Knowledge Ecosystem

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans  • Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics

Interpersonal skills: Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers  • Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline  • Processes and tools to manage conflicts • Enforcing and evaluating community policies

Programatic and tactic skills: Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • Innovations in culture and heritage • Small editing events, campaign and contests  • Event organising

Wiki tech skills: Using Wikisource  • Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages

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Preferred way of sharing: With one-to-one virtual meeting (1h with one/two people)

Organization skills: Proposal writing for funding  • Leadership growth and sustainability • Capacity to manage effective fundraising campaigns

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Designing learning /retrospective sessions  • Engaging in social media, press, and broadcast media • Building a communications strategy to reach key stakeholders

Interpersonal skills: Enforcing and evaluating community policies • Diversity and accountability in Governance Roles • Community development, capacity building and skills development

Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Medium size editing events, campaign and contests

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata  • Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, info boxes, etc.) • Identifying topics of impact

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Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers : l would like to learn on how to monitor volunteers engagement and volunteer relations

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Effective training for newcomers: l have participated in various Wikipedia content editing campaigns and this furthered enhanced my editing skill. l have been training my colleagues on how to contribute on Wikipedia and they have shown great interest most of then do participate in our local Wikipedia programs. l started wikiclub in the library and the main objective is to Increase knowledge of Wikipedia among librarian