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Opeolu, Bolaji Paul

BJ77

jillyog21gmail.com

Best way to connect: Via email

Wikimedian volunteer

Participating as: Indivudal

Nigeria • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Saturday, Sunday (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, Wikiquote → collection of quotations, Wikidata → knowledge database

Areas of interests: Climate Change and sustainability, Human Rights

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: Promoting Nigeria books and authors

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: By being mentored by an organization with more experience, Share resources through emails / platforms …

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Proposal writing for funding  • Establishing governance

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans  • Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics • Engaging in social media, press, and broadcast media

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 • Medium size editing events, campaign and contests  • International campaigns and contests • Event organising

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata  • Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages • 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: Organise face-to-face workshops, With one-to-one virtual meeting (1h with one/two people)

Organization skills: Financial planning and management • Leadership growth and sustainability • Staffing / Team management

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans  • Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Building a communications strategy to reach key stakeholders

Interpersonal skills: Processes and tools to manage conflicts • Processes and tools to deal with abuse and harassment control  • Community development, capacity building and skills development

Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Small editing events, campaign and contests  • Creating, managing and sharing tutorials and resources

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

1.Basic wikidata tools and how it can support other project ( I will love to learn how to properly learn wikidata tools that will make it easier to work round the project ) 2. Medium size editing event and campaign and contest 3.skills that are relevant in managing team and volunteer. 4. Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience 5.Designing and developing educational programs.

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

1.Financial planning and management. 2.Small editing event campaign and contest( being a participant of several contest and local event I'm my community. 3. Effective training for new comers/ new comers contest. ( Having being part of facilitators for local event online and physical ground, I can be part of trainers. 4.Documenting knowledge in ways that are easy to communicate with others. 5.Diversity and accountability in governance roles