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Ibekeme Merit Kosisochukwu

Meritkosy

meritkosygmail.com

Best way to connect: Via email

Wikimedia Usergroup Nigeria

Participating as: Indivudal

Nigeria • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Friday, Saturday (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, Wikidata → knowledge database

Areas of interests: Education

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: It's offline learning. It is Afroyanga Bootcamp

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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: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Proposal writing for funding  • Program/project implementation • Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures

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

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 • Processes and tools to manage conflicts

Programatic and tactic skills: Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • Innovations in culture and heritage • Small editing events, campaign and contests  • International campaigns and contests

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

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: Organise face-to-face workshops, Accompanying a person or a group for a certain period of time (mentoring)

Organization skills: Leadership growth and sustainability • Staffing / Team management • Establishing governance • Identifying & approaching prospective partners

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

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

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata  • Identifying topics of impact

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

I would want to learn Wikimedia tools one can use to make editing easier, also how to contribute to Wikisource and how to use some software and digital skills needed to contribute effectively to Wikimedia projects.

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

Translation of articles: I have translated articles and know how it works, I have taught people and had presentation on contributing to wikidata, I have identified topics of impact in my community and has worked on them