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Ismail Atiba
Atibrarian(_AT_)gmail.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 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

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More to learn

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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

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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.)

My Resources

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