Hello 👋🏽
I'm Benedict Nnaemeka Udeh from Nigeria, a recently hired Community
Relations Specialist (CRS
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Relations_Specialists>) for
Wikidata and Commons.
I'm a member of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group, the Founder of IG Wikidata
Hub, and the Founder of Wiki Mentor Africa, a mentorship program that seeks
to bring more African developers and technical writers into the technical
space of Wikimedia. I'm passionate about community growth and capacity
building. Like you, I'm incredibly spirited about the free knowledge
movement.
In my new position as CRS, I will focus on collaboration and communication
with you about Wikidata and Commons product development, the user-facing
changes and roll-outs, and sometimes on projects with special needs for
collaboration with Volunteers. In other words, I am here to serve you (the
editors, contributors, and readers of Commons and Wikidata projects) and
the working groups at the Foundation that support Commons and Wikidata.
I've already started sharing some updates; you can find them on the Product
and technical support for Commons Portal
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Product_and_technical_support_for_Commons_2022-23>.
Please feel free to use the discussion page
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Product_and_technical_support_for_Commons_2022-23>
to discuss these updates.
I look forward to working with and for you all and can't wait to see the
fantastic things we will do together.
Benedict Udeh
Community Relations Specialist