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Melville, Johannesburg
South Africa
Online and in-person event
Start and end time10:39, 20 May 2026 – 10:39, 30 September 2026
Timezone: +00:00
Number of participants5 participants

<African Wikipedian Alliance (AWA) 2026 Inclusion Project Fellows
<AWA Inclusion Project

I'm off to Wikimania in Paris
23 July 2026
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AWA Inclusion Project-Derek Moore

About Weblearning

Hi there.
My name is is Derek Moore (Q132200769), and as you might have guessed from my username, I think the web is great for online education....

I’m also a Wikipedian in Residence

I help people learn with the web and I manage, research, support or enable knowledge structures and patterns. My digital teaching and learning is both visible and persistent and you can find me

WIR

Scheduled Events

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August 2026

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August 31 : 44th DCW Conversation Hour on Unpacking Software Heritage Open Science at UTC 3:30 – 4:30 PM.

September 2026

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September 4 – September 6: WikiConference India 2026 in Kochi, India
September 18 – September 20: Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
September 24 – September 27: WikiConference North America 2026 in Edmonton, Canada

October 2026

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October 2 – October 4: Language Diversity Conference in Accra, Ghana
October 9 – October 10: Open Knowledge: Wikimedia & Research in the CEE Region in Katowice, Poland
October 17: Wikikonference in Praha, Czechia





Affiliation

I am a paid up member of https://www.wmza.org/ under the leadership of Bobby Shabangu (Q67388288).

Derek J Moore
Wikipedian in Residence





This user enjoys geodata
and teaches map making.
CC BY @weblearning

Dashboards

Vernacular can be spectacular, BUT at the moment it is being neglected on Wikipedia. With chat GPT's assistance, I recently released a South Africa Wikipedia Dashboard.

The dashboard presents a live account of progress on Vernacular Wikipedia. Dashboards never tell the full story though, and there are Wikipedians all over the country who are doing the hard work work. I'm about to release a contribution tracker (alpha) that allows local wikipedians to see their

  1. editing activity,
  2. edit streaks,
  3. contribution momentum and #language community participation

This data can be viewed across South African Wikipedias.