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Mohammed Kamal-Deen Fuseini

Dnshitobu

fuseinikamaldeengmail.com

Best way to connect: Via telegram or whatsapp

Dagbani Wikimedians User Group(Facilitator)

Ghana • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Wednesday, Thursday (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, Wikidata → knowledge database, Wikivoyage → travel guide, Incubator → language versions in development

Areas of interests: Education, Advocacy, Culture

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: Small Wiki Toolkits Workshop- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dnshitobu#First_SWT_bot_workshop_on_%22Pywikibot_framework%22_to_take_place_coming_Friday,_February_25th_at_16:00_UTC

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Have a 1:1 online coffee/tea with someone, Participate learning clinic sharing my case

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Financial planning and management • Establishing governance • Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Engaging in social media, press, and broadcast media

Interpersonal skills: Processes and tools to promote healthy interactions on wiki • Processes and tools to deal with abuse and harassment control  • Use various tools related to community health • Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers

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

Wiki tech skills: Using Wikisource  • Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages • Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts • Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, info boxes, etc.)

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: Have a 1:1 online coffee/tea with someone, Mentoring a person or group

Organization skills: Leadership growth and sustainability

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics • Press and broadcast media

Interpersonal skills: Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers  • Processes and tools to manage conflicts

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

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

1. Designing and developing educational programs (educational program design and implementation - such as Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom, tactics to work with educational partners, promoting media and information literacy, digital literacy and 21st-century skills, training resources and methods for teachers and/or students, technological support, online safety issues, youth engagement and safety, education policy advocacy, evaluation in educational programs)

Explanation: It is obvious that we now live in a digital world hence bringing education in its digital form is the gateway now and i will love to be part of the team that will liberate students in the various communities who do not have access to educational online materials

2. Use various tools related to community health ( Quarry, or Wikidata Query, Phabricator, specifically to promote community health. Additionally, write your own tools or contribute to the specification or development of tools)

3. Lua scripting This is completely new and it will be a great opportunity to learn about it and utilize it

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1. Small editing events, campaigns and contests (Local instances of global campaigns or activities (e.g. local Wiki Loves Monuments, #WikiForHumanRights, WikiGap events). Local editing events designed to work with partners or new audiences who need hands-on training. Facilitation skills on and offline)

Explanation: I am currently a facilitator at the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group and we have organised events, contest and campaigns since 2020 with success with our metrics always beyond the set targets.

2. Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience (specific strategies for newcomers from underrepresented communities, outreach strategies, investing in areas to reduce barriers, making newcomers feel welcome, connecting with existing networks and communities, training methods and tools, off-line and online events to engage newcomers, organizing training, ways to measure learning, ways to evaluate training experience)

Explanation: I am the project lead for the Gurene Wikimedia community which allows me to meet newcommers almost now and then and we have maintained and develop the skills of some of them to help others in basic wikipedia knowledge.

3. Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers (adaptability, team-building, self-awareness, problem-solving, mentoring, assertive communication)

Explanation: I am a strong team player and it helped me work with people from diverse cultural background and we have achieved great success in different organizations i have had the opportunity to serve