I am writing this post from Berlin and the sense of unreality has receded. I really enjoyed every moment of the Wikimania Conference at the Cite Sciences et Industries. I can’t believe there was a point where I thought that the conference would not happen and I was about to turn down the chance to …
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Two months into my WIR with Code for Africa
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 …
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Wikipedian in Residence
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 …
A connected musician
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 …
Uploading images onto Wikimedia Commons
I have a picture of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llandaff_Oratory|Llandaff_Oratory]]. How can I upload it
SWiP Workshops
I was so pleased to be invited to assist the SWiP language preservation initiative and contribute and facilitate on their authorship training programme. I joined the SWiP project team and we ran three workshops in the central region, where we honed our Wikipedia skills (researching, markup, translation). We brought together communities and (hopefully) began to …
Wikimedia and Public Libraries
I’m not a regular Wikipedian (yet). Most of my efforts to open up ICT for Education (ICTE) are focused on OER projects such as OE4BW, DH-OER, Creative Commons or mLiteracy. But last year, Paul West passed on an invitation to attend the Wikimedia strategic retreat at the Constitutional Court and attend the annual AGM as …