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Geert Van Pamel

Geertivp

geertivpgmail.com

Best way to connect: Via email

Wikimedia Belgium (WMBE)

Participating as: For my whole organisation or group

Belgium • Northern and Western Europe (NWE) region

Preferred times: ()

Languages: English, French, Dutch

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wiktionary → Dictionary and thesaurus, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikidata → knowledge database, MetaWiki: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community, MediaWiki: helps coordination work on MediaWiki software, Wikitech: technical projects and infrastructure

Areas of interests: Culture, heritage or GLAM

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Organization skills: Leadership growth and sustainability • Staffing / Team management • Managing and maintaining partnerships

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

Interpersonal skills: Processes and tools to manage conflicts • Diversity and accountability in Governance Roles • Community development, capacity building and skills development

Programatic and tactic skills: Designing and developing educational programs • Event organising

Wiki tech skills: Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts • Lua scripting • Central Notice

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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), With one-to-one virtual meeting (1h with one/two people)

Organization skills: Program/project implementation • Establishing governance • Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics • Documenting knowledge in ways that are easy to communicate with others

Programatic and tactic skills: Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • Innovations in culture and heritage • Medium size editing events, campaign and contests

Wiki tech skills: Tools developed to automate processes • List building for edit contests and campaigns

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

How to build a strong team. How to engage with partners. How to build a public relations and communication strategy. How to build interpersonal skills. How to tackle educational projects. Technical training (building tools).

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

Using Wikidata to implement Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia user project management. How to use Pywikibot to interconnect Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.

My Resources

• My Pywikibot scripts
• Vrije kennis ontsluiten met Wikidata, Wikipedia en Wikimedia Commons (booklet in Dutch; 49 pages)
• Presentation how to use Wikidata for Wikimedia project management (presentation)