Wikibase Community User Group/2021 contact election/Candidates/Shahadusadik

Shahadusadik (Sadik Shahadu)

My name is Sadik Shahadu from Ghana. I am currently serving as a regional ambassador for indigenous communities at Art + Feminism, a Mozilla Open Leaders X fellow, a digital activist and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI). In addition, I am a researcher, Dagbani language translator and a certified Nonprofit Technology Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry.

Over the past six years, I have served as a Wikipedia community leader and a project lead for several Wikimedia projects such as edit-a-thons, workshops, campaigns, and photo walks. I am currently an advisory group member for the Language Digital Activism Toolkit at Global Voices, a country coordinator for Wiki Loves Folklore and Wiki Loves Earth. Since 2017, I have been an active member of the Creative Commons community and was a member of the advisory committee for the 2018 Creative Commons Global Summit in Toronto. Also, I am a board member of UNESCO ‘Open Education for A Better World’.

As an indigenous ambassador, I work with indigenous communities to promote local languages on Wikipedia and the digital divide across Africa. Some of my most outstanding achievements include:

• Helping the Dagbani Wikipedia community to create and upload over 4,000 audio recordings of Dagbani words onto Wikimedia Commons.
• Organizing the 2020 Afrocuration program in Ghana to translate over 40 Covid-19 related articles onto the Dagbani Wikipedia.
• Helping the Dagbani Wikipedia community to become a Wikimedia affiliate User Group.
• Helping the Dagbani Wikipedia out of the incubator.
• Helping the Dagbani Wikipedia be selected as one of the focus languages for the Abstract Wikipedia project.

Questions

• Hi Sadik! I've seen you on the Wikibase community Telegram group and you talked a little about MediaWiki additions and wikibase-docker in November 2019 - I think it was in relation to the Open Repository of the Global Open Initiative Foundation, although you might have had other projects in mind. How far did you get with that? Have you worked on anything else Wikibase-related since then? GreenReaper (talk) 18:33, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi GreenReaper, thank you for your question. Yes, I am currently in a conversation with Georgina from the partnership team at the Wikimedia Deutschland to explore how Wikibase can support the Dagbani language department at the University of Education (school of languages), Ghana. Also, I was a participant of a wikibase hackathon in Berlin at WikidataCon 2019, and have personally installed a wikibase docker image on my local computer in the past. I'm familiar with wikibase and I will like to introduce wikibase to some institutions and communities in Ghana. Regards, Shahadusadik (talk) 07:04, 22 July 2021 (UTC)