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Bashir Sani Gwanki

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bashirgwanki21gmail.com

Best way to connect: Via email

Hausa Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia User Group Nigeria

Participating as: Indivudal

Nigeria • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Monday, Sunday (8 - 12 UTC, 21 - 23 UTC)

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

Languages: English, Hausa

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wiktionary → Dictionary and thesaurus, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikidata → knowledge database, 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: Human Rights, Education

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: No

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Through formal training, Share resources through emails / platforms …

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Proposal writing for funding  • Financial planning and management

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

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 • Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers

Programatic and tactic skills: Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Innovations in culture and heritage • Medium size editing events, campaign and contests  • International campaigns and contests

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata  • 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, Sharing resources via email and/or resource sharing platforms

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Proposal writing for funding  • Financial planning and management

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

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

Programatic and tactic skills: Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Innovations in culture and heritage • Medium size editing events, campaign and contests  • International campaigns and contests

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata  • Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, info boxes, etc.)

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

• Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, infoboxes, etc.)
• Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers (adaptability, team-building, self-awareness, problem-solving, mentoring, assertive communication)
• Financial planning and management (ie. budget design, financial management practices, financial reporting) I would like to learn via email.

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

• Tools for making batch uploads of media and data to Wikimedia projects (e.g. Pattypan, OpenRefine)'
• Basic Wikidata use and how it can support other projects
• Proposal writing for funding (writing a good proposal that follows a logical sequence and captures your vision, your strategies, and how your activities, budget, and evaluation respond to this. Focused on Wikimedia funds, but can also be useful for other grant/partnership proposal writing). I would like to mentioned skills via email.