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Justine Msechu

Justine Msechu

Justinemsechu12yahoo.com

Best way to connect: Via telegram or whatsapp

Wikimedians of Arusha and Kilimanjaro youth community

Tanzania • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Saturday, Sunday (8 - 12 UTC, 12 - 16 UTC)

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

Languages: English, Swahili

Main Wikimedia projects: Incubator → language versions in development, Wikimedia Incubator: for language editors in development. Content units created or improved

Areas of interests: Climate Change and sustainability, Education, Human Rights

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: I am currently participate in different workshop conducted in Arusha with Wikimedia's of Arusha user Group

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Participate learning clinic sharing my case, Through formal training, By being mentored by an organization with more experience

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Proposal writing for funding  • Capacity to manage effective fundraising campaigns

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

Interpersonal skills: Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers  • Use various tools related to community health • Diversity and accountability in Governance Roles • 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 • Small 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.) • Software and digital skills

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: Conduct formal training (develop courses), Organise face-to-face workshops

Organization skills: Leadership growth and sustainability • Staffing / Team management • Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures

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  • Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline  • Processes and tools to manage conflicts

Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • Innovations in culture and heritage • Small editing events, campaign and contests

Wiki tech skills: Using Wikisource  • Basic Wikidata  • Identifying topics of impact

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its the time When I start a new Wikipedia community in the region of Kilimanjaro I want to know more about how to lead projects within Wikipedia. I also want to learn more about how to write reports about Wikipedia projects and how to apply for funding for various projects. I also want to know more about web knowledge and how to build Wikipedia software.

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Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

Experience that I gate since I joined Wikipedia by participating on different meeting like Wiki mania, Wikiindaba , local meeting around to my country and different projects and contest made me to be strong, and knowledgeable on Wikipedia program has been impressing me to volunteer my time on Wikipedia. Last year I won a second place in the Week Africa Challenge competition and through this I can teach my colleagues a few things I know about Wikipedia, furthermore I believe through this I will acquire new knowledge from important and good people whose made changes and impact fully things to their Community. so i am capable of sharing the