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Aliva Sahoo

Aliva Sahoo

akshayaliva92gmail.com

Best way to connect: Via telegram or whatsapp

Odia Wikimedian Usergroup

Participating as: Indivudal

India • South Asia (SA) region

Preferred times: ( 07:00pm - 08:30pm )

Languages: English, Hindi, Odia

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikidata → knowledge database, Wikisource → library

Areas of interests: Advocacy, Human Rights, Social work, heritage or GLAM

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: CIS A2K ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program ), WWC ( https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp_2023 ), IIITH-OKI-ATTT ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IIITH-OKI/Advanced_Train_The_Trainer_2025 )

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Skills this profile would like to learn

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

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

Interpersonal skills: Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline  • Processes and tools to promote healthy interactions on wiki • Processes and tools to manage conflicts • Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers

Programatic and tactic skills: Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • International campaigns and contests • Designing and developing educational programs • Research skills

Wiki tech skills: Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages • Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts • Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, info boxes, etc.) • Tools developed to automate processes

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: Conduct formal training (develop courses), Participate in an e-learning clinic sharing my case (2h plus workshops with 15-20 people)

Organization skills: Leadership growth and sustainability • Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures • Capacity to manage effective fundraising campaigns

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Engaging in social media, press, and broadcast media • Building a communications strategy to reach key stakeholders

Interpersonal skills: Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers  • Community development, capacity building and skills development

Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Innovations in culture and heritage • Small editing events, campaign and contests

Wiki tech skills: Using Wikisource  • Basic Wikidata  • Identifying topics of impact

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

I want to learn Event Organizing. Actually this is my 1st priority to be organize campaign and event in social sector . Try to growth of my knowledge and particular aspects in wikimedia programme.

Stories about sharing

I am interested in sharing meaningful experiences through the skills I apply in Wikimedia work.

My first priority is translating Wikipedia articles, especially women-related articles, because I feel strongly connected to topics that highlight women’s lives, achievements, and contributions. I believe that increasing women-related content in the Odia language is important for reducing the gender gap in knowledge and encouraging more women to participate in our Odia Wikimedia community.

I also focus on mobile editing, as I often create and edit content using mobile devices instead of a computer. I believe mobile-based contribution can make Wikimedia more accessible and encourage more people to participate easily in knowledge sharing.

In addition, I am interested in culture-related topics, especially articles that preserve traditions, festivals, heritage, and local knowledge. Health-related projects are also important to me because reliable health information can create positive social impact in society.

Through my contributions, I want to support knowledge sharing that is inclusive, practical, and beneficial for our community.