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Stanley Boakye-Achampong

SBAbigstan

sbabigstangmail.com

Best way to connect: Via email

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Participating as: Indivudal

Ghana • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Friday, 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, Wikidata → knowledge database, MetaWiki: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community

Areas of interests: Culture, heritage or GLAM, Advocacy

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Participate learning clinic sharing my case, By being mentored by an organization with more experience

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Proposal writing for funding  • Financial planning and management • Leadership growth and sustainability

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans  • Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Designing learning /retrospective sessions  • 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 promote healthy interactions on wiki • Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers

Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • 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: Using Wikisource  • Basic Wikidata  • 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: Organise face-to-face workshops, Participate in an e-learning clinic sharing my case (2h plus workshops with 15-20 people)

Organization skills: Proposal writing for funding  • Financial planning and management • Staffing / Team management • Program/project implementation

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

Interpersonal skills: Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers  • Community development, capacity building and skills development

Programatic and tactic skills: Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Small editing events, campaign and contests  • Medium size editing events, campaign and contests  • International campaigns and contests

Wiki tech skills: 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.

Leadership growth and sustainability - Useful skills-set that will make me a better leader and influential facilitator both within and outside of Wikimedia circles

Networking within the community - Reaching out to new people, sharing ideas, establishing new connections is everything is the 21st century. This topic will expose me to the practical techniques to expanding my network within the Wikimedia ecosystem for better collaborations

Deeper understanding of (wikidata) tools - I love data analytics and visualization and Wikidata is one such powerful project that I need to build capacity in for use in my line of work as a researcher

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

Proposal writing - I love to share my proposal writing experience with colleagues. I have been involved in the art of developing proposals for close to 8 years and interest areas range from economics, agriculture to library and information science.

Project implementation - Project implementation is a skill-set is developed via hands-on experience. I have 10 years experience with project implementation and MEL and I believe sharing this knowledge with others will empower them as well.

Research skills - I have been involved with several research projects and authored/co-authored a number of scientific papers. These are the outputs of the research skills I possess which I am willing to openly share with the community.