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M. Rafiul Bahar Rafi

Mrb Rafi

mrbrafi1971gmail.com

Best way to connect: Via email

NDEC Wikipedia Editorial & Research Team, Trainer

Bangladesh • South Asia (SA) region

Preferred times: Friday, Saturday (12 - 16 UTC, 17 - 20 UTC)

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

Languages: English

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wikimedia Commons → media repository

Areas of interests: Education, Advocacy, Governance and Leadership

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: Currently not involved in any peer learning program but recently finished Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom ToT program.

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Participate learning clinic sharing my case, Share resources through emails / platforms …

Organization skills: Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures • Capacity to manage effective fundraising campaigns • Managing and maintaining partnerships

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans  • Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Building a communications strategy to reach key stakeholders

Interpersonal skills: Use various tools related to community health • Diversity and accountability in Governance Roles • Community development, capacity building and skills development • Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers

Programatic and tactic skills: Leading Advocacy campaigns and strategies  • Creating, managing and sharing tutorials and resources • Using new tools for efficient organising and monitoring contributions

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata  • Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts • Bots

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: Participate in online learning clinic sharing my case, Share resources through emails / platforms …

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

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Designing learning /retrospective sessions  • 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  • Processes and tools to promote healthy interactions on wiki

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

Wiki tech skills: Identifying topics of impact • Handling image donations • Platform

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

1. Knowledge management: I'm currently struggling to store all the collected data efficiently. I need to learn that. 2. Bots: I need to run bots while arranging any edit-a-thon but as I don't know how to run bots, I have request the regular bot experts and that consumes a lot of time. 3. Basic wikidata use: Wikidata is a powerful option to sum up wikipedia. I know almost nothing regarding wikidata.

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Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

1. Image donation: I recently led an image donation campaign with my team. As the donator didn't know anything about Wikipedia and the open knowledge movement, we had to introduce them to the movement and had to fight a lot of misconceptions. 2. Identifying topics to impact: My last project covered the 73 years old history of my own college. This involved collecting old historical books and documents, finding releasable photos, interviewing people etc. Every year, thousands of people search online about our college and the history was also absent on Wikipedia. 3. Building organizational plans and strategies: I created my own wikimedia team almost a year ago and it's currently on a good health. So, I can share my experience on this particular topic.