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Amir E. Aharoni

Amire80

amir.aharonimail.huji.ac.il

Best way to connect: On my user talk page

Wikimedia Israel and Wikimedia Foundation, but my support REALLY doesn't have to go through the organization. I'm happy to do it directly as a volunteer.

Participating as: Indivudal

Israel • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Tuesday (8 - 12 UTC, 17 - 20 UTC)

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

Languages: English, Hebrew, Russian

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wiktionary → Dictionary and thesaurus, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikidata → knowledge database, Wikisource → library, Incubator → language versions in development, MetaWiki: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community, MediaWiki: helps coordination work on MediaWiki software, Wikimedia Incubator: for language editors in development. Content units created or improved

Areas of interests: Governance, Diversity, Open Technology

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: Nothing formal, but I'm helping people with Incubator and software localization all the time. If this program can help people find me, it's great.

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Share resources through emails / platforms …, Have a 1:1 online coffee/tea with someone

Wiki tech skills: List building for edit contests and campaigns

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: With one-to-one virtual meeting (1h with one/two people), Sharing resources via email and/or resource sharing platforms

Organization skills: Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures

Interpersonal skills: Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers

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

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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Further details about what I would like to learn.

The only one I marked is "List building for edit contests and campaigns". I'm very interested in how people do it.

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Wikimedia Incubator: I've been helping languages to start writing in the Incubator and localize the user interface for many years.

Wikisource: I've been maintaining the edition of Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, along with many complex templates and modules.

Event organization: I organized many events for translating user interface (translatewiki.net) and Wikipedia articles (Content Translation).