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Ismail Atiba

Atibrarian

Atibrariangmail.com

Best way to connect: Via telegram or whatsapp

Wikimedia Nigeria User Group, Hausa Wikimedians User Group

Participating as: Indivudal

Nigeria • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Thursday (12 - 16 UTC)

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

Languages: English, Hausa, Esan, Yoruba

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikidata → knowledge database, Wikivoyage → travel guide, Wikisource → library, Incubator → language versions in development, MetaWiki: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community, Wikimedia Incubator: for language editors in development. Content units created or improved

Areas of interests: Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom, and Introduction to Partnership Building

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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 • Program/project implementation • Establishing governance

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics • Building a communications strategy to reach key stakeholders

Interpersonal skills: Processes and tools to manage conflicts • Use various tools related to community health • Enforcing and evaluating community policies • Diversity and accountability in Governance Roles

Programatic and tactic skills: Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • Innovations in culture and heritage

Wiki tech skills: Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages • Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: Accompanying a person or a group for a certain period of time (mentoring), Sharing resources via email and/or resource sharing platforms

Organization skills: Proposal writing for funding  • Identifying & approaching prospective partners • Skills to better connect with networks within the Free Knowledge Ecosystem

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics • Documenting knowledge in ways that are easy to communicate with others • Engaging in social media, press, and broadcast media

Interpersonal skills: Diversity and accountability in Governance Roles • Community development, capacity building and skills development

Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • Small editing events, campaign and contests  • Designing and developing educational programs

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata  • Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, info boxes, etc.) • Handling image donations

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

1. Tools for making batch uploads of media and data to Wikimedia projects (e.g. Pattypan, OpenRefine),

2. Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts,

3. Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

1. Basic Wikidata use and how it can support other projects,

2. Handling image donations,

3.Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, infoboxes, etc.)