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ToT Workshop
This document contains the introduction of MSIG phase 2 road map the communities of DRC ,Rwanda and Burundi comes together drive leadership and skills development in the Great Lakes Region for Future audience

The phase 2 of the movement strategy in Africa great lakes will focus on the leadership and skills development where adapted trainings and workshops will be organised beyond the existing platforms and make sure the future audiences approach is implemented to catch the youthful potential contributors.

The targets, the outcomes and the impact are discussed by the community in Africa great lakes and shared platforms enable collaboration in basic and necessary skills to on board new members in our communities

the project will reach various communities where the preliminary survey will give insights about the potential beneficiaries , their willingness to contribute to wikimedia projects and their specific skills gaps.

If interested , you may join the activities from the following link
Movement Strategy in Africa Great Lakes phase II , event registration tool

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La phase 2 de la stratégie du mouvement en Afrique des Grands Lacs se concentrera sur le développement du leadership et des compétences. Des formations et des ateliers adaptés seront organisés au-delà des plateformes existantes et veilleront à ce que l'approche des futurs publics soit mise en œuvre afin d'attirer les jeunes contributeurs potentiels.

Les objectifs, les résultats et l'impact sont discutés par la communauté d'Africa Great Lakes et les plateformes partagées permettent la collaboration dans les compétences de base et nécessaires pour intégrer de nouveaux membres dans nos communautés.

Le projet atteindra diverses communautés où l'enquête préliminaire donnera un aperçu des bénéficiaires potentiels, de leur volonté de contribuer aux projets Wikimedia et de leurs lacunes en matière de compétences spécifiques.

Si vous êtes intéressé, vous pouvez participer aux activités en cliquant sur le lien suivant Mouvement Strategique en Afrique Grang Lac, phase II , event registration tool


Activities

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Launch session

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Leadership & Event Management skills in Wikimedia in the Africa Great Lakes Region n
  • Date : March, 06th 2025
  • Time : 9:00 AM
  • Place : Face to Face in Rwanda, Kacyiru

Wikidata Workshop

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Background

This workshop is designed to empower the Great Lakes region Wikimedia community to actively contribute to and benefit from Wikidata, the free and open knowledge base. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of Wikidata's core concepts, tools, and best practices, enabling them to confidently create, edit, and query data. The training will foster a collaborative learning environment where participants can share their knowledge, learn from experienced Wikidata editors, and contribute to building a vibrant and knowledgeable community in the Great Lakes region.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the fundamental concepts of Wikidata and its role in the Semantic Web.
  • Confidently navigate and edit Wikidata items, properties, and statements.
  • Utilize SPARQL to query Wikidata and extract meaningful information.
  • Evaluate data quality and contribute to improving the accuracy and completeness of Wikidata.
  • Collaborate effectively with other editors through Wikidata WikiProjects and community platforms.
  • Apply their Wikidata skills to enhance Wikimedia projects and other knowledge initiatives in the Great Lakes region.

In Rwanda

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Day 1 - Introduction to Wikidata and its Ecosystem

Time Duration Topic
9:00 - 9:30 30 min Welcome and Introductions about the movement strategy phase 2
9:30 - 10:00 30 min Course Overview, Account Creation, Dashboard Introduction
10:00 - 10:30 30 min Tea Break
10:30 - 12:00 90 min What is Wikidata? (Key concepts, structure, importance)
12:00 - 13:00 60 min Wikidata and Wikipedia (interlinking, language)
13:00 - 14:00 60 min Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 60 min Hands-on: Exploring Wikidata, Using Talk Pages, Watchlists
15:00 - 16:00 60 min Adding to Wikidata (creating items, properties)

Day 2 - Contributing to Wikidata

Time Duration Topic
9:00 - 10:00 60 min Hands-on: Creating new Wikidata items
10:00 - 10:30 30 min Break
10:30 - 11:30 60 min Hands-on: Creating new Wikidata items (Adding statements, qualifiers, and references)
11:30 - 13:00 90 min Querying Wikidata - SPARQL (basics, visualizations)
13:00 - 14:00 60 min Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 120 min Hands-on: Writing SPARQL queries, generating visualizations

Day 3 - Wikidata WikiProjects and Community

Time Duration Topic
9:00 - 10:00 60 min Evaluating Data on Wikidata (quality assessment, Recoin)
10:00 - 10:30 30 min Break
10:30 - 11:30 150 min Wikidata WikiProjects (coordinating efforts)
13:00 - 14:00 60 min Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 60 min Hands-on: Contributing to a Wikidata WikiProject
15:00 - 15:30 30 min Wikidata Community, Governance, Policies
15:30 - 16:00 30 min Closing remarks and closure


In DR. Congo

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MSIG Atelier Wikidata à Goma
  • Dates : November, 29nd to 30th 2024
  • Time : 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Venue : Goma
  • Program :

Day 1 - Introduction to Wikidata and its Ecosystem

Time Duration Topic
9:00 - 9:30 30 min Welcome and Introductions about the movement strategy (phase 2 particulary)
9:30 - 10:00 30 min Wikimedia movement and its projects (brief introduction)
10:00 - 10:30 30 min Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00 30 min Introduction to databases (Value, Data, Datasets, DB,...)
11:00 - 12:30 90 min Wikidata presentation (What, multilingual project, Knowledge base vs DB, ...)
12:30 - 13:00 30 min Hands-on: Account and Talk Pages creation
13:00 - 14:00 60 min Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 120 min Wikidata interface discovery (Id, label, description, alias and RDF triple)

Day 2 - Contributing to Wikidata

Time Duration Topic
9:00 - 10:00 60 min How to create a new Wikidata item (Choosing a subject, admissibility and creating an item)
10:00 - 10:30 30 min Tea Break
10:30 - 11:30 60 min Hands-on: Creating new Wikidata items (Adding statements, qualifiers, and references)
11:30 - 12:00 30 min Assessing the quality of a Wikidata item (which references to use)
12:00 - 12:30 30 min Introduction to queries and Open Data
12:30 - 13:30 60 min Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00 90 min Introduction to SPARQL queries(SPARQL syntax, AI generator and Data visualization)
15:00 - 16:00 60 min Hands-on: Writing SPARQL queries (SPARQL syntax, AI generator and Data visualization)

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In Burundi

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  • Dates :
  • Time :
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Mid-conversation

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msig in Great Lacs region mid conversation 1
  • Dates : Febuary 11, 2025
  • Time : From 7:00 pm to 10:09 UTC+2
  • Venue : Hybrid (Kigali, google meet)

Participants :

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  1. VALENTIN NVJ (talk)
  2. ɴᴅᴀʜɪʀᴏ ᴅᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ 🐎 (talk) 07:12, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Cedrickarungu921 (talk)
  4. RebeccaRwanda (talk)
  5. Lydie maliki (talk) 16:41, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  6. NLBLMV (talk)
  7. Ferdinand IF99 (talk)

Topics covered

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The conversation focused on two major import issues:

1. Discussion on the Hub

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For this first point, Derrick and Valentin presented the Central hub initiative(Mama hub). After a thorough understanding of the subject, each participant was able to express his or her point of view.

At the end of the discussions, we came to the following conclusions:

.For the Africa Great Lakes hub, we think a central hub(Mama Hub) would be an excellent idea. However, it is not yet urgent to set it up, as the majority of hubs in Africa are still in the pilot stage. It is therefore preferable to take the time needed to ensure the smooth running of these hubs before considering the implementation of the Mama Hub initiative in the future.

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2. MSIG Phase 2 timelines

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We also revisited our phase2 calendar and decided to make adjustements since the ongoing political crisis in the region limited some activities.

3. Completion of second phase activities

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On the second point, we discussed the finalization of activities linked to the second phase of our project. The following decisions were taken:

Organize two sessions on Leadership development & Africa growth webinar. To plan face-to-face workshops for Africa growth as well as on photography and Wikimedia Commons in Rwanda (Kigali), DRC (Goma and Bukavu), while taking into account the security situation in the east of the country, which could lead us to organize these workshops in other cities or online. A workshop is also scheduled in Burundi (Bujumbura). The new schedule is as follows:

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A. Leadership development & Africa growth webinar : Thursday, February 20 and Friday, February 21

B. Face-to-face workshop on Africa growth :

  • DRC: Saturday, March 01st, 2025
  • Rwanda: February 22, 2025
  • Burundi: to be confirmed

C. Workshop on photography and Wikimedia Commons :

  • DRC: Friday, February 28, 2025
  • Rwanda: February 28, 2025
  • Burundi: to be confirmed
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A convivial moment took place at the end of the meeting, where a small meal was shared with the participants present.

Leadership Workshop

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  • Date : February 28th, 2025
  • Time : 16:00 UTC
  • Topic : Leadership & How becoming an Administrator (English Wikipedia case)
  • Venue : Online

Participants

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Animatrice

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Pioneer/ Great lakes Region Leaders-ToT Workshop

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This workshop is designed to equip trainers with leadership skills and event management expertise to drive growth, development, and sustainability within the Wikimedia movement, particularly in the Africa Great Lakes region (Rwanda, DRC, and Burundi).

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: 

✅Event Management skills

✅ Be able to engage and onboard new contributors effectively  

✅ Develop sustainable strategies for community growth  

✅ Foster collaboration across the Africa Great Lakes region  

✅ Build stronger, inclusive Wikimedia communities

✅ Have a strong understanding of Wikimedia leadership structures 

Opportunity

  • Strong Leadership with Required skills
  • Opportunity to the resources ( Training )
  • Patenership
  • Volunteers

Challenges

  • Lack of capacity building

Brainstrom TOT

  • How can I ensure sustainability and drive impact projects?

✅Operation Calendar ( Timeline )

✅ Project Planning and Forecasting

✅ Communication among the stakeholders Financial

✅ Financial Planning Impementation

✅ Reporting and documentation

✅Monitoring and evaluation  

  • Develop a sustainable strategy for Community growth.

✅Capacity Buliding ( Training and Debates )

✅Inclusion in the community.

✅Build a strong foundation ( Goals and vision )  

  • How do you you have when meet a challenges how do you solve as leader ?.

✅Emotional intelligent

✅Understand the root cause of the challenges

✅Communication under the stakeholders involved

✅Discuss with the team on the way forward (How , Why , When , What )  

Leaders Feedback

✅Find the interested Volunteers in community ( Understand the areas of improvemnts among the volunteers )

✅ Build a friendly community Enviroment ( Team Buliding , Games , community outreach )

✅ Encouraging the Inclusivity

✅ Encouraging the Innovation

Participants in Rwanda session

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  1. RebeccaRwanda (talk) 09:37, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Yves ganwa (talk) 09:37, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Gasangwa sam (talk) 09:39, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Peace Batuma (talk) 09:40, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Cnyirahabihirwe12345 (talk) 09:50, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Training of Trainees (ToT) session

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  • Date : March, 06th-11th, 2025
  • Place : Kigali, Rwanda
  • Attendees :
  1. Alice.Mukesh (talk)
  2. RebeccaRwanda (talk)
  3. Endikuemmy
  4. Yves ganwa
  5. Rosine Igirimpuhwe
  6. Cnyirahabihirwe12345
  7. Annick green
  8. Alexa-Nicky
  9. Adygrafix250 (talk) 13:49, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  10. NLBLMV (talk)

Africa Growth Workshop

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In Rwanda

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Participants

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  1. Cnyirahabihirwe12345

In DRC

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Goma

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Participants

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  1. Lydie maliki
  2. Monique Mpabuka
  3. Bonheur Bushiri
  4. EsthyLL
  5. Sunway godianne
  6. Nicole mwenge
  7. Olva tas
  8. Josue Joe Makuta
  9. Gloiremutaliko21
  10. Jossy27
  11. JUSCAR KARUBAMBA
  12. Floramuvunga
  13. Esther NEZA
  14. Merci Kahubangwa
  15. VALENTIN NVJ

Program

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  • Date : March 1st, 2025
  • Venue : Goma/DRC
Time Duration Topic
10:00 - 10:30 30 min Bienvenue et introduction aux mouvement stratégique dans la régions de grands lacs (phase 2 en particulier)
10:30 - 11:30 60 min Comprendre le mouvement de la connaissance libre et ouverte
11:30 - 12:00 60 min Tea Break
12:00 - 13:00 60 min Importance du bénévolat et que signifient vos contributions pour Wikimedia et le monde ?
13:00 - 14:00 60 min Comprendre la structure d'affiliation au sein de Wikimedia ?
14:00 - 15:00 60 min Comment contribuer sur les projets Wikimedia ?
15:00 - 15:30 30 min Lunch & End of activity

For more information, visit event meta page

Bukavu

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MSIG in AG, Africa Growth workshop in Bukavu

Participants

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  1. ErnestKM (talk)
  2. Bwasomo (talk)
  3. Myrakas (talk)
  4. Prisca Kasole (talk)
  5. Cngakani (talk)
  6. Nadiamuganga (talk)
  7. Pierrette antk (talk)
  8. FrasierNG
  9. EMMAKARHA(talk)
  10. Ntera(talk)

Program

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  • Date : March 8th, 2025
  • Venue : Bukavu/DRC
Time Duration Topic
10:00 - 10:30 30 min Bienvenue et introduction aux mouvement stratégique dans la régions de grands lacs (phase 2 en particulier)
10:30 - 11:30 60 min Comprendre le mouvement de la connaissance libre et ouverte
11:30 - 12:00 60 min Tea Break
12:00 - 13:00 60 min Importance du bénévolat et que signifient vos contributions pour Wikimedia et le monde ?
13:00 - 14:00 60 min Comprendre la structure d'affiliation au sein de Wikimedia ?
14:00 - 15:00 60 min Comment contribuer sur les projets Wikimedia ?
15:00 - 15:30 30 min Lunch & End of activity

For more information, visit event meta page

In Burundi

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Participants

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Program

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  • Date : March 8th, 2025
  • Venue : Bujumbura/Chateau9 - Avenue du Palmier
Time Duration Topic
08:30 - 09:00 30 min Historique de Movement Strategy in Africa Great Lakes
09:00 - 09:30 30 min Vision de Wikimedia
09:30 - 10:00 30 min Objectifs de Wikimedia
10:00 - 12:00 120 min Les projets de Wikimedia et pourquoi contribuer aux projets de Wikimedia
12:00 - 12:45 45 min Pause café
12:45 - 13:15 30 min Comment rejoindre le mouvement Wikimedia ? - Qui sont les contributeurs aux projets Wikimedia ?
13:15 - 14:00 45 min Organisation des événements Wikimedia
14:00 - 15:30 90 min Engagement dans le mouvement Wikimedia - Affiliations Wikimedia - Partenariat
15:30 - 16:30 60 min Déjeuner - Fin des activités

Photography and Wikimedia Commons Workshop

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In DRC

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Goma

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Participants

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  1. Gloiremutaliko21 (talk) 11:01, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  2. RollyKLif
  3. Lydie maliki (talk) 14:46,21 March 2025 (UTC)
  4. Cedrickarungu921 (talk) 15:23, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Bonheur Bushiri
  6. Josue Joe Makuta 15:27, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Merci Kahubangwa
  8. Jossy27 (talk)
  9. Olva tas
  10. Nicole mwenge
  11. EsthyLL
  12. Sunway godianne
  13. BamLifa
  14. Josue Joe Makuta
  15. VALENTIN NVJ

Program

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  • Date : March 21st, 2025
  • Venue : Go Innovation, Goma/DRC
Time Duration Topic
10:00 - 10:30 30 min Bienvenue et introduction aux mouvement stratégique dans la régions de grands lacs (phase 2 en particulier)
10:30 - 12:30 120 min Initiation sur la Photographie
12:30 - 13:00 30 min Tea Break
13:00 - 13:30 30 min Introduction sur Wikimedia Commons
13:30 - 14:00 30 min La licence libre : Creative Commons (CC0, Attribution 4.0, ...)
14:00 - 15:00 60 min Comment téléverser les images sur Commons ?
15:00 - 15:30 30 min Lunch & End of activity
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For more information, visit event meta page

Bukavu

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Participants

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  1. Myrakas (talk) 13:03, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Ntera (talk) 13:04, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Missclarzi (talk) 13:05, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Didier MUGISHO MIRINDI (talk) 13:06, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  5. G4004 (talk) 13:07, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Prisca Kasole (talk) 13:09, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Akon Romulus(talk)13:12,29 March 2025 (UTC)
  8. Fabien Bukuze (talk) 13:13, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  9. FrasierNG (talk) 13:14, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Merstel007 (talk) 13:16, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Bwasomo (talk) 13:26, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Armand Ndola : Photographe professionnel
  13. Ernest Katembo

Program

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  • Date : March 29th, 2025
  • Venue : Bukavu/DRC
Time Duration Topic
10:00 - 10:30 30 min Bienvenue et introduction aux mouvement stratégique dans la régions de grands lacs (phase 2 en particulier)
10:30 - 12:30 120 min Initiation sur la Photographie
12:30 - 13:00 30 min Tea Break
13:00 - 13:30 30 min Introduction sur Wikimedia Commons
13:30 - 14:00 30 min La licence libre : Creative Commons (CC0, Attribution 4.0, ...)
14:00 - 15:00 60 min Comment téléverser les images sur Commons ?
15:00 - 15:30 30 min Lunch & End of activity
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For more information, visit event meta page

In Burundi

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Participants

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