Let’s go Afrika!

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 at 21:02, Adjoa Linda Fletcher <belrivers@gmail.com> wrote:

This is awesome.


On Wed, Aug 21, 2024, 8:09 AM Francis Quasie <fquasie@gmail.com> wrote:
Congratulations to the winners and all those who contributed to the campaign

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 1:05 PM abdulkareem tesleemah <abdultessy@gmail.com> wrote:
Congratulations to the winners! 

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024, 11:50 Jael Boateng, <jboateng@ofwafrica.org> wrote:
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

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Open Foundation West Africa
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