_______________________________________________Hello everyone,Following months of thorough and meticulous evaluation by the Africa Wiki Challenge 2024 jury, we are thrilled to announce the winners of the fourth edition of the annual contest, themed "Educate Africa: Nurturing minds for the 21st century." Congratulations to all the campaign's deserving winners!
Winners
Overall Winner: User: DaSupremo
First Runner-Up: User: Kalakpagh
Second Runner-Up: User: Sirjat
Best Female Contributor: User: The-Efua-Resa
Top Uploader on Commons: User: KwameGhana(Bright Kwame Ayisi)
The contest, which is organized by Open Foundation West Africa, saw collaborations from organizing groups like the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, Ghanaian Pidgin Community, Hausa Community Wikimedia Madagascar, Ethiopian User Group, Wikimedia Community Arusha, Wikimedia User Group Benin, Wikimedia Community of Togo, GlobalWikiEducation Initiative(Tanzania) and others.
1,230 editors of the campaign contributed to 23,200 existing articles while 6,830 new articles were created under the theme. Contributions were made in 14 local languages all over Africa such as Swahili, Hausa, Igbo, Fante, Twi, Dagbani, Frafraha, Ghanaian Pidgin, Gurene, Kinyarwanda and others.
We are deeply appreciative of our international jury team, who worked tirelessly to ensure the winners were accurately identified.
International Jury
User: Bile_rene - Cameroon
User: Ridzaina - Nigeria
User: Peterkwashie - Ghana
User: Husseyn Issa - Tanzania
User: Asamoah Daniel Kwame Oware -Ghana
User: Gwanki -Nigeria
Congratulations once again to all the winners!
Relevant links
--Jael Serwaa BoatengExecutive DirectorOpen Foundation West Africa
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