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Ishmam Ahbab Mahee

Ishmam Ahbab

ishmamahbabmahee.iamgmail.com

Best way to connect: Via email

NDEC Wikipedia Editorial and Research Team, Role-Volunteer

Participating as: Indivudal

Bangladesh • South Asia (SA) region

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

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

Languages: English

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, MetaWiki: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community

Areas of interests: Education, Advocacy

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Have a 1:1 online coffee/tea with someone, By being mentored by an organization with more experience

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

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans  • Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics • Building a communications strategy to reach key stakeholders

Interpersonal skills: Processes and tools to manage conflicts • Processes and tools to deal with abuse and harassment control  • Community development, capacity building and skills development • Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers

Programatic and tactic skills: Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • International campaigns and contests • Research skills

Wiki tech skills: Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts • Tools developed to automate processes • Software and digital skills

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: With one-to-one virtual meeting (1h with one/two people), Participate in an e-learning clinic sharing my case (2h plus workshops with 15-20 people)

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Staffing / Team management • Program/project implementation

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Designing learning /retrospective sessions

Interpersonal skills: Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers

Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • Event organising

Wiki tech skills: Handling image donations

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

1. Wikimedia Tools: We all know how easy the job of an Wikipedian becomes after using these tools but for me I am hardly acquainted with these tools. So, I have a request for the experts in this side to share their knowledge with me.

2. Tools developed to automate processes: I have no knowledge about this while I have grown some interest towards it. So, I want to learn about it and ask the experts' help.

3. Software and digital skills: For Wikipedia's development these tools can be considered undeniable. So I would like know these and also contribute in the development of Wikipedia.

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

1. Identifying topics to impact: Recently, I have worked in a project which covered the 73 years old history of my own college. This involved collecting old historical books and documents, finding releasable photos, interviewing people etc. Every year, thousands of people search online about our college and the history was also absent on Wikipedia.

2. Handling Image Donations: I have worked in updating the 73 year old legacy of my college in Wikipedia and a bigger portion of this job was updating about 150 black and white photos the circle the history of our college. So I basically have a fair experience in this sector.

3. Building organizational plans and strategies: I have been proactive with my college's English language club for almost over a year and within this short period of time we have successfully organized 4events from our club that ended with handling a huge number of audience among which the least number was about 500. These events contains all about volunteer management, event management and staff management, design learning and above all remains organizational plans. Moreover, as COVID-19 situation struck up, I with some of my friends to open a non profitable online organization to use the Facebook platform in organizing various charitable events as well as motivating everyone to do something creative in that lockdown situation. I was successfully able to organize two events from my organization.