Grants:Let's Connect Profile/Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska
Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska
natalia.szafran
wikimedia.pl
wikimedia.plBest way to connect: Via email
community support officer, Wikimedia Polska
Participating as: For my whole organisation or group
Poland • Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region
Preferred times: Tuesday, Wednesday (8 - 12 UTC, 12 - 16 UTC)
Can dedicate: Between one (1) hour and three (3) hours per Month
Languages: English
Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wiktionary → Dictionary and thesaurus, Wikisource → library, MetaWiki: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community
Areas of interests: Diversity, community health and support
Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: Volunteer Supporters Network
Skills this profile would like to learn
Preferred way of learning: Participate learning clinic sharing my case, Through formal training
Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Leadership growth and sustainability • Establishing governance
Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans • Designing learning /retrospective sessions
Interpersonal skills: Processes and tools to deal with abuse and harassment control • Use various tools related to community health • Diversity and accountability in Governance Roles • Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers
Programatic and tactic skills: Research skills • Creating, managing and sharing tutorials and resources
Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata • Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts
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Skills this profile would like to share
Preferred way of sharing: Participate in an e-learning clinic sharing my case (2h plus workshops with 15-20 people), Sharing resources via email and/or resource sharing platforms
Organization skills: Leadership growth and sustainability • Program/project implementation
Learning, evaluation and communications skills: 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
Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Event organising
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I have worked a lot in preventing volunteer burnout - I've organized a mindfulness training for wikimedians and appreciation programs. I am also working on a peer support group for plwiki admins. And I've organized professional mediations traning for Wikimedians. You can learn more here about mindfulness for wikimedians: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/04/01/why-we-taught-wikimedians-how-to-breathe-mindfully-and-what-you-should-know-if-you-want-to-do-the-same/ and about our program preventing burnout including monitoring volunteer engagement: https://youtube/nLRNifOkhEc?t=161