Making clicks count & putting IT into place.
This Wikipedia world can be brutal. But that is to be expected. The last of the five pillars of the movement makes it very clear. “Wikipedia does not have firm rules.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Five_pillars Weirdly enough this approach works for me (perhaps my anarchic self enjoys it the frission and debate). But this community space also is …
Continue reading “Two months into my WIR with Code for Africa”
Lerato (🤣🤣🤣) prompted me. I prompted Chat GPT. My WIR (Wikipedian in Residence) Community Coordinator with the African Wikipedian Alliance gave me the final push. I’m starting to record, collect and publish the statistics about the status of “Vernacular Wikipedia”. My dashboard about Vernacular Wikipedia has been placed on Github. Its offers brief information about …
It has been my experience, that when a group of people come together and share their practices with each other, they then can also see the best in their own and each other’s work. They can then encourage each other to cross the barriers and boundaries that hold them back. This is true online and …
I published the concept Folio Friday on the in Aug 2022 I registered the domain name FolioFriday (https://foliofriday.africa/ ) about a year ago (Jan 2024). I wanted to build upon the idea of making your thoughts visible. I had not given much thought to how making thoughts visible also made them scrapable, by LLMs. Today …
Recently, (4-5 March 2025), I attended the second of SADiLaR’s Data Management Workshop at Unisa, in the Senate Hall. You might remember, I attended a similar workshop last year, where Benito Trollip opened my eyes up to research data management and Bianca Peterson (from Fathom Data) introduced to Open Refine. Here, with cameras and lights, …
A mentor is “someone who can hold a mirror up to us” (Abbott and Been). Someone with experience, knowledge, wisdom. The mentorship relationship allows for shared learning. A place for non judgmental observations about goals and performance, between mentor and mentee. A generative learning partnership that has the potential to shape the craft and culture …
Today’s blog post is dedicated to the people who have gone beyond the call of duty and changed the way that I (and hope quite a few other people) think, act and be. People who have been responsive to concerns, aspirations. Who’ve helped me anchor myself and find a purpose. If there was a stage, …
“It is unclear now whether extending the postdigital framework to embrace and understand conditions, behaviour, and societies outside Western Europe and the white settler nations, might not be an inappropriate attempt to create a neo-colonialistic rather than global way of looking at necessarily diverse and different communities and cultures, each with their own way of …
I spent a fascinating (and grueling) two days at UJ a colloquium, entitled “Breaking the Chains of Corruption: Whistleblowing as a Catalyst for Social Development in South Africa.”(18 – 19th July 2024) The event was dedicated to the very complex topic of “whistleblowing” and how the state and corporations have responded to corruption and capture. …
Continue reading “Whistleblower support in SA Higher Education”
Please note: This was written by me December 2014, but I am only publishing it now (November 2024) on my blog. I think that the reflections are useful for those who want to run a massive online open course (MOOC). In education, technology platforms have created expanded possibilities for teaching and learning. At the end …