Dedicated to continuous learning.
Buea, Cameroon
Joined December 2012
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Have you ever dreamed about using your phone? If not, why?
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“Simplicity isn't the lack of complexity; it's the clarity of understanding.”
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“The first rule of learning is to admit you don’t know. The second rule is to never stop asking why.”
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Learning is like peeling an onion— each layer reveals another layer, and occasionally, it makes you cry.
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Hackathons are a great way to challenge yourself and collaborate with others as a team.
In this article, @TechWithRJ2 shares his personal experiences with hackathons and explains why every student should join one.
He talks about teamwork, growth, job opportunities, and where to find hackathons.
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Don’t trust a result until you’ve tested it backwards, forwards, and upside-down.
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The best part of physics is that reality doesn’t care how confident you feel.
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Happy New Year 2026 ✍️
The laws remain unchanged, the axioms still hold.
Nothing really disappears - it just changes form.
And with time, we slowly get better at understanding it all.
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Are you a member of the Wikimedia developer community? Take the Developer Satisfaction Survey, and help the @Wikimedia Foundation support the community!
👉 wikimediafoundation.limesurv…
(deadline Jan 5th)
See last year's report: mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer…
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We just release Semantic MediaWiki 5.1.0.
This is a minor release that we tagged to give you access to the latest enhancements before we drop support for MediaWiki below 1.43
We will soon raise the minimum MediaWiki version to 1.43 on master to aid supporting MediaWiki 1.44
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Wikidata for Botanists: Connecting People, Plants, and Data
🧑🔬Now in @botanyone 🌿
botany.fyi/7dtcvb?utm_campai…
Full paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf062?…
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Did you know?
Wikimania 2025 will mark the 20th edition of the event and only the third time it's hosted in Africa. It will also be the first time the conference takes place in East Africa.
#Wikimania2025 #WikimediaZA
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"Student contributions to Wikipedia as evidence of learning and competence development in distance education" (in Spanish, with English abstract) revistas.um.es/red/article/v…
Acaban de publicarnos en @REDDUSC "Las contribuciones del estudiantado universitario a Wikipedia como evidencia de aprendizaje", un artículo sobre cómo aprenden los estudiantes universitarios editando @Wikipedia @eswikipedia @wikimedia_es @WikiResearch ¡Gracias!
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To make progress in understanding, we must remain modest and acknowledge what we do not know.
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