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Mikaeel Sodiq Adesina

Agbalagba

jerrykufang22

gmail.com

Best way to connect: Via email

Yoruba Wikimedians User Group

Participating as: For my whole organisation or group

Nigeria • Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region

Preferred times: Tuesday, Wednesday (8 - 12 UTC, 17 - 20 UTC)

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

Languages: English, Yoruba

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wiktionary → Dictionary and thesaurus, Wikiquote → collection of quotations, MetaWiki: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community, MediaWiki: helps coordination work on MediaWiki software

Areas of interests: Advocacy, Culture

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: Organizer Lab V2

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: By being mentored by an organization with more experience, Share resources through emails / platforms …

Organization skills: Proposal writing for funding • Leadership growth and sustainability • Staffing / Team management

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Documenting knowledge in ways that are easy to communicate with others • Building a communications strategy to reach key stakeholders

Interpersonal skills: Processes and tools to deal with abuse and harassment control • Use various tools related to community health • Diversity and accountability in Governance Roles • Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline

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

Wiki tech skills: Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts • Software and digital skills

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: With one-to-one virtual meeting (1h with one/two people), Accompanying a person or a group for a certain period of time (mentoring)

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Program/project implementation • Establishing governance

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: 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

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

Wiki tech skills: Identifying topics of impact • List building for edit contests and campaigns • Central Notice

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

1. Software localisation: I want to learn how to localise software for on Wiki promotion and for personal growth. 2. Digitizing cultural knowledge on Wikimedia projects: I want to upskill and learn more in this regard. I have served as documentation and metadata officer for Oral Knowledge Documentation under Wikimedia Nigeria User Group in 2021 and 2022, Metadata and documentation Officer and producer for documentation of Oral Knowledge of Indigenous Vocations for the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group 2022. 3. Volunteer management and development: I want to learn more on how I can further improve spirit of volunteerism in my community members as a strategy to retain all of them as the community is growing exponentially.

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

1. Identifying topics of impact: I have coordinated Wikimedia related edit a-thons by identifying topics of impact based on the need and importance. Some of them are *Wiki Loves Democracy Edit a-thon , and Yoruba Wiki Loves Christmas*. I used both campaign to generate lots of articles for Yoruba Wikipedia. 2. Advocacy: Before 2020, the Yoruba Wikipedia was not know in Nigeria until we started the Wiki Advocacy plans and programs which has given us lots of recognitions both on/offline and had sprung partnerships for the community. 3.Small editing events: I have a solid knowledge of organizing editing events and that is one of the strategies we have adopted to move our local wiki away from bot written encyclopedia to human written wiki.

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