Meeting Notes. Africa Agenda Wikipedia.

 There are the sample of trainings we can have 

1: Project and Financial managment,

2: Monitoring and Evaluation

3: Team building and Collaboration

4: Research

Research skills

​Topic list development

How to access and search research databases e.g Wikipedia library for sources 

.Fact-checking :How to detect reliable and unreliable sources online

On wiki skills

. How to translate a metapage

. How to create and customize a metapage for your project

. How to use the Xtools to track wikimedia project stats

.How to develop list of articles or items using petscan query, Vizquery, Wikidata query service.

How to customise the outreach dashboard for different projects using categories, PSID, etc

Winnie Kabintie

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Board_resolution_and_vote_on_the_proposed_Movement_Charter/Appendix

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/07/celebrating-one-year-of-afrika-baraza-a-transformative-journey-for-african-wikimedians/


I would strongly recommend that first time trainings should be physical. We cannot underestimate the impact of physical interpersonal communication exchange. Africa is slowly adapting to the digital age and learning from pre-recorded sessions may not fully impact on the learning process especially from first timers, not everyone has a coding background and may struggle to adapt to learning from recordings. So kindly consider first time physical training and mentoring and continue online from there.

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