Hello everyone,

The African Knowledge Initiative https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Africa_Knowledge_Initiative (AKI), seeks to leverage the Wikimedia tools and platforms to breed innovative solutions to bridging the content gap on global digital knowledge networks.

This year Open Foundation West Africa’s http://ofwafrica.org annual writing contest the Africa Wiki Challenge was used as an avenue to help achieve AKI’s goal.

The campaign was named the Africa Day Campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Day_Campaign_2023 and themed "Africa Free Continent Trade" to align with the Africa Union Day 2023 theme.

From the Campaign's Program Dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/africa_day_campaign_2023/overview, we tracked a total of 20 Programs, with 473 editors, from 13 countries contributing to 4000 articles

After months of intense and rigorous reviews by the Africa Day Contest Jury, we are elated to announce the winners of the Africa Day Campaign 2023.

Congratulations to the winners of the campaign.

Winners

Winner- User:Muhammed Idriss Criteria from Nigeria- 502 new articles in Hausa Wikipedia

2nd Winner - User:Gwanki from Nigeria- 183 new articles in Hausa Wikipedia

3rd Winner- User:Charbel1719 Benin - 75 new articles in French Wikipedia

Top Female Contributor- User:Mercyjamb123 - 66 new articles in Igbo Wikipedia

We are super grateful to our international jury team who worked effortlessly to ensure that the winners were identified.

International Jury

User: Azogbonon - Benin

User: Yaw Tuba - Ghana

User: Anani A. George- Ghana

User: Bile_rene - Cameroon

User: Justine Msechu -Tanzania

User: Memoriesghana -Ghana

User: Kwaku Berko- Ghana

To all our partners, local organizers, and editors, we appreciate your efforts in making this campaign a success.

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Kind Regards,

Eugene Masiku