Grants:Let's Connect Profile/Esther Wangui Wanjiku
Esther Wanjiku
ngangaesther8
gmail.com
gmail.comBest way to connect: Via telegram or whatsapp
Wikimedia community user group Kenya
Participating as: Indivudal
Kenya • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region
Preferred times: Saturday, Sunday (12 - 16 UTC, 17 - 20 UTC)
Can dedicate: Between one (1) hour and three (3) hours per Month
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, Culture, heritage or GLAM
Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: for now l am not involved in any training program
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Skills this profile would like to learn
Preferred way of learning: Through formal training, By being mentored by an organization with more experience
Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Financial planning and management • Skills to better connect with networks within the Free Knowledge Ecosystem
Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans • Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • 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 manage conflicts • Enforcing and evaluating community policies
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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)
Organization skills: Proposal writing for funding • Leadership growth and sustainability • Capacity to manage effective fundraising campaigns
Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Designing learning /retrospective sessions • Engaging in social media, press, and broadcast media • Building a communications strategy to reach key stakeholders
Interpersonal skills: Enforcing and evaluating community policies • Diversity and accountability in Governance Roles • Community development, capacity building and skills development
Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Medium size editing events, campaign and contests
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Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers : l would like to learn on how to monitor volunteers engagement and volunteer relations
Stories about sharing
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Effective training for newcomers: l have participated in various Wikipedia content editing campaigns and this furthered enhanced my editing skill. l have been training my colleagues on how to contribute on Wikipedia and they have shown great interest most of then do participate in our local Wikipedia programs. l started wikiclub in the library and the main objective is to Increase knowledge of Wikipedia among librarian