Wikiducation.BE Belgium/Volunteer Personal Development Initiative

	Wikiducation Belgium
	The Volunteer Personal Development Initiative or VPDI for short, is a program to train off-wiki and on-wiki volunteers. Apart from some willingness to devote your time to Wiki-related projects, some self-motivation, and a desire to help other users there are no pre-requisites for anybody to become a Volunteer. Wikimedia Belgium currently is in a phase to prepare trainingprograms and trainingmaterial based on experienced volunteers. Each training will consist of a presentation to acquire a particular skill (set), the intake of information about Wiki projects / wiki culture / wiki code of conduct or wiki techniques and how that skillset fits in to the Wiki environment one or more practical workshops in which you practise / execute the skills on-line on the wiki environment one or more session in which you help others acquiring that skill set Examples to be developped presentation techniques A target how to tell the right story based on a presentation that contains keywords or images subject presentation : basic introduction to wikipedia (used during edit-a-thons) participate in an edit-a-thon as an editor practical : present for class session present during an edit-a-thon under supervision of a trainer Other workshop titles to be developped organising a workshop / edit-athon Sourcefinding, referencing / verifiability ... article writing illustrating... Wikimedia in residence Running glam projects Running a small non -profit organisation event organising legal aspects of vzw/asbl in Belgium , responsibility of directors administratation of a small non-profit organisation financials of a small non-profit organisation collaboration with the WMF and neighbouring chapters grantmaking Training techniques
	On this page you will find background information the Wikiducation project by Wikimedia Belgium, if you wish to be kept informed by e-mail about news and press releases, send us an e-mail at wmbewikimedia.org with the request.