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Faisal Ali

DaSupremo

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Best way to connect: On my user talk page

Ghanaian Pidgin Wikimedians Community, Wikimedia Ghana User Group, OFWA, Hausa Wikimedians User Group

Ghana • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Saturday, Sunday (8 - 12 UTC, 21 - 23 UTC)

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

Languages: English

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikidata → knowledge database, Incubator → language versions in development, MetaWiki: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community, MediaWiki: helps coordination work on MediaWiki software, Wikimedia Incubator: for language editors in development. Content units created or improved

Areas of interests: Education, Advocacy, Human Rights

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: I participated in the WikiVibrance project where I mentored a newbie (User:Ibnali1) to tranlsate articles from English to Hausa.

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Have a 1:1 online coffee/tea with someone, Participate learning clinic sharing my case

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Proposal writing for funding  • Financial planning and management • Program/project implementation

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

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

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

Wiki tech skills: Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts • Identifying topics of impact • List building for edit contests and campaigns

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: Participate in online learning clinic sharing my case, Mentoring a person or group

Organization skills: Leadership growth and sustainability • Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata  • Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

I would like to learn how to apply for grants to help in involving more people as I have began editing on Incubator. I introduced the Ghanaian Pidgin English currently in Incubator. I would also like to learn how to recruit more volunteers and retain them in the movement.

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

I partnered with User:NanaYawBotar to organise the Ghana Histo cita-thon program in both 2020 and 2021. It was successful as I was the lead trainer. I trained newbies on how to edit on Wikipedia and create Wikidata items.