Help:Onboarding

When joining many of Wikimedia wikis it is not always clear how to join activities, connect to others and make yourself visible, or ... there are multiple concurrent options, that is hard to choose from even for informed Wikimedian.

As this Outreach wiki is exceptionally outward facing and focused on work with partners and new/perspective contributors *(with little or no Wikimedia insights) it is even more useful to be offered info and guidance.

Here are few suggestions on potential pathways depending on your background, experience and interests.

• If you are skilled and experienced Wikimedian that is informed of GLAM and/or Education work in Wikimedia, who wants to support others, be available for consultation and engage with different topic areas, you might want to make a User page profile that describe some of your competencies and expereinces, as well as make yourself visible/available locally/regionally on listings pages of Education per country, GLAM with local contacts and/or thematically GLAM volunteers. You might also want to create profile on forum.movement-strategy.org which has built in automatic content translation for logged in Wikimedians.
• If you are joining in as external professional engaged in an institution, experienced freelancer, student or enthusiast in culture and education your focuses and needs might be best directed in specific areas here...(tbc)