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Antonia Chela

Metacognable248

antmchelagmail.com

Africa Wiki Women

Participating as: For my whole organisation or group

South Africa • Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region

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Main Wikimedia projects: I haven't started working just yet.

Areas of interests: Diversity, Culture, heritage or GLAM

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: None at the moment.

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Organization skills: Proposal writing for funding  • Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Documenting knowledge in ways that are easy to communicate with others • Engaging in social media, press, and broadcast media

Interpersonal skills: Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers  • Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline  • Community development, capacity building and skills development

Programatic and tactic skills: Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • Innovations in culture and heritage

Wiki tech skills: Using Wikisource  • Handling image donations

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Skills this profile would like to share

Organization skills: Leadership growth and sustainability

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Designing learning /retrospective sessions

Interpersonal skills: Community development, capacity building and skills development

Programatic and tactic skills: Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata

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I would like to learn this skill, as it relates to my career aspirations as a museum professional:

- Innovations in culture and heritage (digitizing cultural knowledge on Wikimedia projects, such as Wikisource, contributing intangible culture to Wikimedia Commons, modeling intangible culture on Wikidata, exploring approaches for decolonization and cultural restitution)

I believe it is necessary to learn about digitization as a museum professional as it provides access to objects of culture for people across the world and helps preserve knowledge about culture. Intangible culture is of significant importance to preserve because there is risk of losing access to culture, Wikimedia is a helpful resource to learn how to do this. I believe I can learn much from the projects that have taken place on Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata can help bridge knowledge gaps on artists, curators and people or projects of special interest and I would like to learn how to access this data for my professional knowledge. Decolonization and cultural restitution are topics of my current studies towards a degree and are necessary to understand relating to heritage and cultural dissemination through Wikimedia.

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In terms of Wiki projects I have not yet been able to share any skills as I have just joined the African Wiki Women project. I do have a skill outside of Wiki that has helped me in sharing. This relates to the skill:

- Community development, capacity building and skills development (inviting newcomers, mentorship, connecting people with opportunities/matchmaking, cultivating culture, cultivating belonging, skill development, outreach, experience design, leadership development).​​

As an Apprentice Curator with my previous organisation Culturally Art Collective I applied most of these skills to the artists who were going to be in exhibitions. I helped them connect amongst each other and encouraged them to setup artist profiles (for about 28 artists). I created a culture of learning about the artists and their motivations which helped support online exhibition planning and execution.