WLUG SC 2025 candidate/Cmwaura
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| Preferred name | Cmwaura | |
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| What languages do you speak, and at what fluency level? (Please include your English proficiency.) | English (fluent), Swahili Fluent) | |
| What region(s) of the world do you have experience with, and what kind of experience do you have? (“Experience” can mean you have lived or worked there or are currently living or working there; you’re familiar with the culture and language; etc.) | Sub-Saharan Africa (lived/worked in Kenya) | |
| What Wikimedia project(s) do you actively edit? And in what language(s)? | Wikiquote, Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikicommons | |
| What affiliate(s) are you actively involved with? In what capacity are you involved? Do you serve in a leadership role or have you in the past? | Co-Founder Wikimedia User Group Kenya, Wiki Loves Women focus group member, WLUG. | |
| Please describe any experience you have with working in Wikipedia/Library. | Supported the integration of Wikimedia projects with local Librarians and educational institutions. Training and onboarding librarians to Wiki projects, organizing edit-a-thons, library partnerships, etc. I have been a part of international Wikimedia initiatives, scholarship and programs committees (GLAM-Wiki 2023 & 2025), Wikilibcon2025 Scholarship team and currently serving as the team lead for Scholarship Wikimania 2025. | |
| What is your view on the development of our affiliation? | My vision for the Wikimedia + Libraries is to foster cross-regional collaboration and knowledge sharing among librarians. To amplify voices from the Global South.
-I would like to see WLUG thrive in Transparent rules and procedures (roles, time demands, conflict resolution mechanisms). -Connections with professional development (I would love to strengthen ties with IFLA and other organizations so that the work carried out receives official recognition and can serve as professional development). -Active communication in languages other than English (imagine more regional coordination, WhatsApp groups and workshops in Swahili or other languages uniting more countries. | |