Words and what not

Wikimania 2018 will be in Cape Town and a lot of words will be used to express the importance of adequate coverage of everything Africa. ...

Beitbridge is both a town , a ward and a district in Zimbabwe. Particularly for Wikidata they are distinct; the town is together with ot...

Chemba is a ward in the eponymous district of Tanzania. Chemba had 16047 inhabitants at the 2012 census. Lately a lot of additional info...

When you visit the OkayAfrica website , you are kindly invited to learn about the 100 women celebrated in 2018 . Having a list of 100 fine...

When you watch this talk, you learn that teaching the alphabet with "A is for apple" is problematic in Africa. People do not eat...

Listeria list are now updated on a daily basis on the Yoruba and Zulu Wikipedia . That is really fortunate because one person active on t...

It used to be that anyone could edit Wikipedia. In theory this is still the case HOWEVER with university students increasingly refining th...

Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka is a politician from Madagascar with two Wikidata items that have now been merged. People at the Z...

After the introduction of Listeria lists for African politicians on the Zulu Wikipedia, the question was raised how complete lists could ...

As no percent of Wikipedia is about Africans, it is great to learn how " map internationalisation " works on African language Wi...

In a previous blog post I indicated that I would not include ministers. Well, I changed my mind because of feedback that I received. The ...

The approach on copyright for text and data is imho utterly different. For your text you seek a reputable source, you cite it. All in all ...

The Amsterdam editathon for female civil rights activists was a success. This Listeria list shows it well. All the articles not cursive n...

Currently there are 45 countries that I monitor for their national politicians. When I add a specific national "position", I do...

There are many points of view when it comes to copyright and data. In the Wikipedia world the discussion is different because each text ha...

Africa hardly gets attention in Wikimedia projects. When the one project that brings together, Wikidata, does not know the people who are ...

Minding the gaps is  important in all our projects. The #GenderGap  program is an excellent project that shows the important and impressiv...

A friend attended a Wikimedia conference in Africa. He asked me for the number of people known to be from Mozambique . A question like thi...

Reading about the history of the Ottoman Empire is a different experience on every Wikipedia. Typically most of the "humans" inv...

A friend of mine got into problems on #Wikidata. The story: She had proposed a property that was talked into something else that would ...