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Muhammad Bashir Yahuza

Uncle Bash007

unclebash1143gmail.com

Best way to connect: On my user talk page

Hausa Wikimedian UserGroup

Participating as: Indivudal

Nigeria • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Tuesday, Thursday (8 - 12 UTC)

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

Languages: English

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wiktionary → Dictionary and thesaurus, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikiquote → collection of quotations, Wikidata → knowledge database, Incubator → language versions in development

Areas of interests: Education, Diversity

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: New Page Patrol School

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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: Program/project implementation • Establishing governance • Managing and maintaining partnerships

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans  • Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Designing learning /retrospective sessions

Interpersonal skills: Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline  • Processes and tools to manage conflicts • Use various tools related to community health • Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers

Programatic and tactic skills: Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • Innovations in culture and heritage • International campaigns and contests • Designing and developing educational programs

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata  • 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: With one-to-one virtual meeting (1h with one/two people), Sharing resources via email and/or resource sharing platforms

Organization skills: Proposal writing for funding  • Staffing / Team management • Skills to better connect with networks within the Free Knowledge Ecosystem

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics • Documenting knowledge in ways that are easy to communicate with others • Building a communications strategy to reach key stakeholders

Interpersonal skills: Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers  • Enforcing and evaluating community policies • Community development, capacity building and skills development

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

Wiki tech skills: Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages • List building for edit contests and campaigns

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

1. Basics of Wikidata: Although I know some of the basics of Wikidata such as lexemes and labeling items. I still want to know more about connecting Wikidata with other Wikis 2. Wikimedia tools for running queries and scripts: I want to learn how to run these tools 3. Setting up templates: I want to learn how to set templates in Hausa Wikipedia as many templates are missing.

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

1. Proposal writing: This is an important aspect of conveying your request for a particular event in the Wikimedia movement. This proposal has to be in line with the Wikimedia mission and vision. A well structured proposal may be approved faster and vise versa. I have written a number of proposals and very few are declined 2. Wikimedia tools to measure participants contributions Dashboard, Hastag tools which can be used in open contests and Editathons. I have utilized these tools in many events 3. Local event organizings: I had successfully organize local events that encourages editings etc.