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Hussein Issa

Husseyn Issa

husseinissa020gmail.com

Best way to connect: Via email

Am working with an informal group known as Global WikiEducation Initiative.

Participating as: For my whole organisation or group

Tanzania • Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region

Preferred times: Saturday, Sunday (17 - 20 UTC)

Can dedicate: Between one (1) hour and three (3) hours per Month

Languages: English

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikiquote → collection of quotations, Wikidata → knowledge database, Wikimedia Incubator: for language editors in development. Content units created or improved

Areas of interests: Climate Change and sustainability, Education, knowledge creation

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Have a 1:1 online coffee/tea with someone, Through formal training

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

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  • Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline  • Processes and tools to promote healthy interactions on wiki • Processes and tools to manage conflicts

Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • Innovations in culture and heritage • International campaigns and contests

Wiki tech skills: Using Wikisource  • Basic Wikidata  • Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages • Bots

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Preferred way of sharing: Organise face-to-face workshops, Conduct formal training (develop courses)

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

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: Processes and tools to manage conflicts • Processes and tools to deal with abuse and harassment control  • Use various tools related to community health

Programatic and tactic skills: Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Small editing events, campaign and contests  • Medium size editing events, campaign and contests  • Research skills

Wiki tech skills: Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts • Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, info boxes, etc.) • Identifying topics of impact

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