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Gladness Gibson

Gladys Gibbs

gladnessgibson2gmail.com

Best way to connect: Via telegram or whatsapp

Wikimedia Community Arusha-Event Manager

Participating as: For my whole organisation or group

Tanzania • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

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

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

Languages: English, Swahili

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikidata → knowledge database

Areas of interests: Education, Diversity

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: Wikimedia Community Arusha/Women in Wiki-Awareness and Training

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Preferred way of learning: Share resources through emails / platforms …, Through formal training

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

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans  • Documenting knowledge in ways that are easy to communicate with others • Building a communications strategy to reach key stakeholders

Interpersonal skills: Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline  • Processes and tools to manage conflicts • Processes and tools to deal with abuse and harassment control  • Use various tools related to community health

Programatic and tactic skills: Designing and developing educational programs • Creating, managing and sharing tutorials and resources • Using new tools for efficient organising and monitoring contributions

Wiki tech skills: Using Wikisource  • Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages • Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, info boxes, etc.)

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

Organization skills: Program/project implementation • Establishing governance • Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures

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

Interpersonal skills: Use various tools related to community health • Enforcing and evaluating community policies • Community development, capacity building and skills development

Programatic and tactic skills: Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Small editing events, campaign and contests  • Event organising

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata  • List building for edit contests and campaigns

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