WikiIndaba conference 2021/Abubakari Khadijah/Report

Participant

Khadijah Abubakari (Abubakari Khadijah)

Sessions Attended

1.The future of knowledge creation in Africa through partnership.

2. Building a Wikimedia Community in African

Educational Institutions.

3. The Universal Code of Conduct.

4. Photography in Wikimedia Movement.

5. Building Organizer Tools for the

Future of Campaigns.

6.CEE Meets African

Wikimedians: Regional Hubs Implementation

Perspectives and Challenges.

7. State of Wikimedia in

Africa.

8. Wikibase: Free and customizable

knowledge base to connect & collaborate

around structured data.

Learning Pattern

How to use Airmeet I learned about

Universal Code of Conduct (Ucoc). It was

strongly upheld for clear and accurate

behaviours on wiki projects. I also got to

Learn about Biaz quizz, words and phrases

that seem unclear like IKEA, community

insight. Biaz quizz also is a discussion

on African and the programmes that will

showcase culture and language. There was

supports and encouragement on building

more programmes for Africa visibility. The

African librarians showed great intellect on

integrating Wikipedia in their services in a bid

to introduce Wikipedia to their users. The

Wikipedia user groups are important and

Recognized for their diverse programmes. I learnt that Igbo Wikipedia is doing

well and Nigeria user group is quite diverse in

funds and programmes. It shows great

activities and visibility.

Networks made

Connecting with people across Africa and Beyond, which was a short term connection.

outcomes

It has helped me value partnership and collaboration regarding projects. I have been

encouraged to get familiar with online programs The Knowledge gain has boost my volunteerism, to continue to educate and impact life through volunteerism.

I encourage the organizers consider doing more online conferences to reach greater audience than in person conferences that will limit the audience attendance.