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I'm a Palestinian volunteer editor on Wikipedia from Jerusalem, and Founding member and treasurer of Wikimedians of the Levant User Group, and the representative in Palestine. I have been a Wikimedian since 2005, editing both the English and Arabic Wikipedias. I have a passion for the free dissemination of knowledge. Most recently, I have been coordinating activities of the Wikipedia Education Program in Palestine, at both the high school and university levels. Outside of the movement, Jack is an advocate of free knowledge, a software engineer, and a father of three.
My name is Olaniyan Olushola, an accountant by profession, founding member and president of Wikimedia User Group Nigeria.[1] I am an active Wikimedian and member of the community with various contributions to Wikimedia projects. I have organized several Wikimedia project in the last few years. I organized Wiki Loves Africa 2015 and 2016 in Nigeria. I participated in Wiki Indaba 2014 and WikiAfrica/OpenAfrica15,[2] a conference for Wikipedians In Residence, organized by WikiAfrica in Johannesburg, South Africa. I coordinated Wikipedia 15 in Nigeria[3] and Wiki loves Nigeria Writing Contest, organized as part of Wikipedia @15 celebration in Nigeria.[4] I coordinated Wiki Loves Women in Nigeria and my work was extensively covered by multiple newspapers in Nigeria.[5] I coordinated Wiki Photo Tour in Nigeria through a Wikimedia Foundation grant support in 2016.[6] I conceptualized a media partnership between Wikimedia UG Nigeria and Blackface Media,[7] a radio program that runs every Wednesday called Time-Out with Wikipedia. I am the lead presenter on Wikimedia Radio and TV program. I established Wikimedia Fan Club at Lagos State University, University of Ibadan and Wikimedia Hub, Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ). I am also the project coordinator for "She Can with ICT", a project that focus on training Nigerian female students on how to contribute to Wikimedia project. We are currently mentoring over twenty five potential editors, through Wikimedia Outreach dashboard this project. [8]I led Wikimedia UG Nigeria to sign a partnership agreement with Goge Africa,[9] with the aim of improving African based articles on Wikipedia with volume of free images. Presently, we have finalized a new partnership agreement with a WFM 91.7 [10] to broadcast Wiki Loves Women on radio and also to create awareness about Wikimedia projects.If I am not on Wikipedia, I work as consultant in the area of Software Deployment and Asset Management. I am married with two lovely kids.