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Monica Bonilla

Monica Bonilla (WMCO)

dewikimediacolombia.org

Best way to connect: Via email

Wikimedia Colombia

Participating as: For my whole organisation or group

Colombia • Latin America and The Caribbean (LAC) region

Preferred times: Tuesday, Wednesday (12 - 16 UTC, 17 - 20 UTC)

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

Languages: English, Spanish

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wiktionary → Dictionary and thesaurus, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikidata → knowledge database, Wikiversity → learning resources, Incubator → language versions in development, Wikimedia Incubator: for language editors in development. Content units created or improved

Areas of interests: Culture, heritage or GLAM, Education

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Through formal training, By being mentored by an organization with more experience, Have a 1:1 online coffee/tea with someone

Organization skills: Staffing / Team management • Capacity to manage effective fundraising campaigns • Identifying & approaching prospective partners • Skills to better connect with networks within the Free Knowledge Ecosystem

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: Processes and tools to manage conflicts • 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: Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • 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  • Basic Wikidata  • Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts • Identifying topics of impact

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: Sharing resources via email and/or resource sharing platforms, 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 • Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Designing learning /retrospective sessions  • Documenting knowledge in ways that are easy to communicate with others

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 • Small editing events, campaign and contests  • Medium size editing events, campaign and contests  • International campaigns and contests

Wiki tech skills: Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages • Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, info boxes, etc.) • List building for edit contests and campaigns

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

Staffing / Team management: i wanna lear about opportunities for team development, change management, staffing practices, team-building skills, recruitment, staff development, and evaluation, policies to promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Identifying & approaching prospective partners. Currently Wikimedia Colombia has established communication and relationships with more than 50 allies. We want to learn how to leverage these relationships. Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation. In general, we want to learn about evaluation, monitoring and measurement methods both quantitatively and qualitatively. Both internally and externally.

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I can share the planning experience and how we have built the annual plans at Wikimedia Colombia. Additionally I can share the implementation strategies and how we have institutionalized Wikimedia Colombia.You could also share the strategies we use to organize activities, mainly editathons and local campaigns within the framework of global campaigns. I would also like to share experiences and expertise in engaging diverse communities in the movement. From the first activities such as outreach, communication and already activities.