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Umar Faruk Yunus

Umar2za

yumarfarukgmail.com

Best way to connect: Via telegram or whatsapp

Northeast Wikicommunity

Participating as: Indivudal

Nigeria • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Monday, Sunday (17 - 20 UTC, 21 - 23 UTC)

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

Languages: English, Arabic

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia

Areas of interests: Diversity, Culture, heritage or GLAM

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Skills this profile would like to learn

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

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

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans  • Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Designing learning /retrospective sessions  • Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics

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 • Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • Innovations in culture and heritage

Wiki tech skills: Using Wikisource  • Basic Wikidata  • Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages • Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: Sharing resources via email and/or resource sharing platforms, Participate in an e-learning clinic sharing my case (2h plus workshops with 15-20 people)

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

Basic Wikidata use and how it can support other projects, Tools developed to automate processes (e.g. Pywikibot) and Software and digital skills

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