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Goodness Ignatius

Olugold

goodness.ignatius88gmail.com

Best way to connect: Via telegram or whatsapp

Igbo Wikimedians User Group, Ig Wiki Librarians Hub

Participating as: For my whole organisation or group

Nigeria • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Monday, Friday (8 - 12 UTC, 12 - 16 UTC)

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

Languages: English

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wiktionary → Dictionary and thesaurus, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikiquote → collection of quotations, Wikidata → knowledge database, Incubator → language versions in development, MetaWiki: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community

Areas of interests: Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: Wiki Mentor Africa

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Participate learning clinic sharing my case, Resources sharing and simeone to ask questions when I need help

Organization skills: Program/project implementation • Capacity to manage effective fundraising campaigns • Managing and maintaining partnerships

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans  • Designing learning /retrospective sessions  • Building a communications strategy to reach key stakeholders

Interpersonal skills: Processes and tools to deal with abuse and harassment control  • Enforcing and evaluating community policies • Diversity and accountability in Governance Roles • Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline

Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • Innovations in culture and heritage

Wiki tech skills: Using Wikisource  • Tools developed to automate processes

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: Participate in an e-learning clinic sharing my case (2h plus workshops with 15-20 people), Organise face-to-face workshops

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Leadership growth and sustainability • Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics • Documenting knowledge in ways that are easy to communicate with others

Interpersonal skills: Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline  • Processes and tools to promote healthy interactions on wiki • Community development, capacity building and skills development

Programatic and tactic skills: Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Small editing events, campaign and contests  • Creating, managing and sharing tutorials and resources

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata  • Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, info boxes, etc.) • List building for edit contests and campaigns

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

1. Wikisource: It's entirely new to me and would like to learn how I'll contribute to it and invite my community to do so too.

2.Tools developed to automate task: As a sysop on the Igbo Wikipedia and a contributor on other projects, it will be a useful skill to learn in order to make tasks easier

3. I've use open refine a few times on Wikidata for test batch uploads, it worked though. I would love to learn and practice more as I intend to work with libraries in Nigeria on how to use open refine for batch uploading.

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

1. Basic Wikidata use: I have been able to startup Wikidata translation in my community. The translation of items and properties makes the use of language descriptions on Igbo Wikipedia possible. It also made easy the use of Wikidata- generated databoxes in the Igbo Wikipedia. Before now, the Igbo Wikipedia uses the infobox which is mostly translated in English or has an error message. We've been able to solve this challenge by using databoxes

2. Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects. When I joined Wikimedia, the mainpage of the Igbo Wikipedia had a lot of redlinks, with my little knowledge of installing template and customizing it, I've been able to constantly update the mainpage of the Igbo Wikipedia to what it is today. Though I refer to other templates in the English Wikimedia for guides. I have also worked on headers templates on Meta Wiki for documentation pages. I learnt this skill on Wikimedia, through conference, research, practice and consulting mentors.

3.List building: I've been able to use categories to generate list for editathon. One of the strategies that has worked for me is to make sure editors have their copies of list to work on