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Introduction<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I’ve often wondered where our statesmen choose to go once they have retired. Cecil John Rhodes, for example, died at 49 in a modest cottage at 246 Main road (Q20617285<\/a>), on the way to Vishoek. Poor bloke. His Groote Schuur Mansion had burnt down about 10 years before. Today, Rhodes Cottage is a thatched building, but originally structure had an asbestos roof. The warrior \/ statemen Jan Smuts lived in wood-and-iron building. This pre-fabricated structure was made of wood and iron components and was once used as an officers\u2019 mess. It was bought in Middelburg and re-erected on the farm Doornkloof. The house was also known as die GROOT HUIS*. (Q61930814<\/a>) and is also known as the Smuts House Museum. Dr AB Xuma, medical doctor, leader, activist, president-general of the African National Congress (ANC) and signatory of the doctors pact, had a home on the corner of Toby and Thornton street. (Q20981521) in Sophia Town. Forced to leave in 1959, the house is known as Empilweni (the place of healing) is the Sophiatown Heritage Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are places worth visiting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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When Nelson Mandela was released from prison he moved in to a house in 13th street<\/em> in Houghton. After he and Winnie were divorced, he moved to a place in 12th street<\/em> in Houghton in 1998. Madiba moved to 12th avenue when he married Gra\u00e7a Machel. Sanctuary Mandela is the name of the boutique hotel that now sits where Madiba’s house is. The hotel was amazing. I was a guest there of the Wikimedia Foundation and we had a superb lunch. The hotel has 9 rooms and each is centred around the decades he lived. I wish I’d taken more pics. This was also his last residence, any my kids left flowers outside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d like to take pictures of these stateman’s places. For example, what about Thabo Mbeki’s house bordering on Riverlea and Houghton Estate<\/em>. There is also Kgalema Motlanthe’s place in 8th Street, Houghton Estate<\/em>. Each of these houses are an important part of our countries heritage. We can’t only have early colonists and nationalists on Wikipedia. This is part of the my (unpaid) work about communities that I am doing as a Wikipedian in Residence for Code for Africa (and my almost completed WIR). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upload Images Features<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Within the set of stylesheets I put together for Heritage Month, I’ve created place for something called “Images Wanted”, or “Upload images”. This is a function that allows the average Wikipedian to upload images when the template is called. Some have suggested that this function be placed on talk pages, while others put it right on the page that needs a picture. I’m going to suggest that this function can also be located in the Sandbox. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I saw this function originally in Japanese (see Template:\u753b\u50cf\u52df\u96c6\u4e2d) and Korean (see \ud2c0:\uc774\ubbf8\uc9c0\uc5c5\ub85c\ub4dc<\/em>\uc694\uccad). It looks complicated, but there is a simple explanation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can initiate the function by writing familiar words in curly braces{{\u753b\u50cf\u52df\u96c6\u4e2d}} . No, I don’t speak Japanese or write it. Neither do I speak vernacular languages. I can however code switch. For example, what does \u5229\u7528\u8005:Derek J Moore mean. Look at this in context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Japanese Wikipedia in my sandbox I added {{\u753b\u50cf\u52df\u96c6\u4e2d}} and I call this function
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After adding {{\u753b\u50cf\u52df\u96c6\u4e2d}} and saving it, I can use the upload images function. You can upload images by pressing a hyperlink (or a blue button) or clicking the image of photographs and magnifying glass. This takes you to the upload wizard<\/a> and you can there upload the desired pictures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The template also permits you to place pictures into categories (Wikipedia:\u753b\u50cf\u63d0\u4f9b\u4f9d\u983c\/\u30ab\u30c6\u30b4\u30ea\u4e00\u89a7). But I still need to figure this out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schema<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We talked about blocks recently. Wikipedia allows you to create blocks too. If you write this on Wikipedia, then you’ll get a block. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

{| class=\"infobox\"\n|This is an infobox\n|}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
 Below is a more complicated block. The diagram shows how  an infobox is combined with the function {{laisa setshwantsho}} and the associated parameters.
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